Shrubs or small trees. Leaves large, coriaceous; stipules large, bipartite. In-florescences terminal, spreading, cymose or corymbose; bracteoles absent. Flow-ers pedicellate; hypanthium turbinate campanulate, the calycine cup with 3-5 lobes or teeth; corolla funnelform or campanulate, the tube cylindrical, villous in the throat, the lobes 5, valvate, glabrous; stamens 5, the anthers exserted, narrow, sagittate, the filaments thick, inserted below the corolla mouth; ovarian disc de-pressed, the ovary 2-celled, the style stout, filiform, exserted, the stigma oblong, obtuse, the ovules numerous. Fruits--eapsular, turbinate, truncate, thick walled, dehiscing loculicidally into 2 valves-;-seeds minute, attached horizontally, the testa reticulate.
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