Small to medium sized trees. Leaves opposite, simple, entire, petiolate; stip-ules intrapetiolar, each pair connated into an axillary ligule or both stipules free from one another at each side of the base of the petiole. Pseudoracemes terminal; pedicels short-pedunculate or subsessile, usually solitary or 2-3 per peduncle; bracts elliptic, lanceolate or subulate, small; bracteoles small. Flowers yellow, white, pink or reddish; sepals 5, ovate, usually pubescent, biglandular; petals 5, clawed, glabrous, the limb more or less concave, suborbicular; stamens 10, some-what unequal, the filaments thick, flattened, often connate and adaxially hirsute at the base; anthers oblong, introrse, glabrous or more or less pilose; connective thickened, equaling the theca or surpassing it prominently, the thecae linear, obtuse or mucronate at apex; ovary pubescent or glabrous, ovoid, 3-carpellate, 3-locular; styles 3, distinct, subulate, acute, glabrous, often persistent; torus densely hirsute. Drupes suborbicular or ovoid, yellow or yellow-orange at ma-turity, the endocarp trilocular with 3-2(-1) seeds. Cotyledons coiled.
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Shrubs or trees [subshrubs]. Leaves eglandular; stipules intrapetiolar, distinct or partially [completely] connate. Inflorescences terminal, racemes [sometimes racemes of few-flowered cincinni]. Pedicels sessile [raised on short peduncles]. Flowers all chasmogamous, 6+ mm diam., showy with visible petals, stamens, and styles; calyx glands [0 or] 10 (sepals all 2-glandular); corollas bilaterally symmetric, petals white or pink, becoming red in age [light or medium yellow or red], glabrous [rarely hairy]; stamens 10, all fertile; anthers subequal; pistil 3-carpellate, carpels completely connate in ovary; styles 3, subulate, slender; stigmas terminal [slightly internal], minute. Fruits drupes, yellow or brownish [orange, red, purple, blue, or blue-black], stone 1, 3-locular, wall hard, smooth or rugose. x = 12.
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