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Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely almost whorled, simple, mostly lanceo-late or elliptic; petiolate. Inflorescences cymes, open and many-flowered or occasion-ally few-flowered. Flowers perfect, ? actinomorphic, sessile or pedicellate; calyx campanulate, closed in bud, 2-5-lobed; corolla funnelform to salverform, 5-lobed, the lobes frequently rounded; stamens 5, included or exserted, borne on the corolla throat, subsessile or the filaments only shortly free, the anthers narrow to broadly oblong; ovary ovoid, unlobed, 2-or incompletely 4-locular, the style bifid near the apex, the stigmas 2 and capitate or peltate. Fruit drupaceous, ? spherical, the pericarp thin, enclosing 4 nutlets.
Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla tube, sometimes about the middle, included or exserted; anthers oblong on short filaments.
Inflorescences paniculate or corymbose, sometimes few-flowered, terminal but sometimes apparently lateral.
Fruit drupaceous, subglobose; pyrenes 4, bilocular, 1-seeded, the outer surface with thin woody lamellas.
Style terminal on the ovary, entire or very shortly bifid; stigmas 2, capitate or peltate, or 1, bilobed.
Corolla tube usually campanulate; lobes 5, frequently rounded, spreading or reflexed.
Leaves alternate, sometimes crowded, petiolate, simple, usually entire.
Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic, subsessile or pedicellate.
Calyx campanulate, closed in bud, 2–5-lobed.
Trees or shrubs.
