Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, alternate, or rarely ternate. Inflores-cences dichasia, axillary. Flowers bisexual; calyx 4-lobed; petals 4; disc cup-shaped, slightly 4-lobed; stamens 4, inserted between the lobes of the disc; pistil semi-inferior by adhesion to the disc, ovary 4-loculed (or 2-loculed?), each 1-ovuled. Fruit a drupe; seed exarillate.