"Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-6-partite. Sepals valvate, punctate free. Corolla shorter than the sepals, tubular, truncate or with an obscurely lobed mouth. Filaments almost wholly free from the corolla and in mature flowers much exceeding it. Anthers elliptical, dorsifixed, splitting down their whole length. Ovary ovoid narrowed into a rather stout style with a stigmatic pit at the apex. Ovules very few immersed at one level in the upper half of the placenta. Fruit a drupe, globose, crowned by persistent style, one-seeded with a brittle endocarp. Endosperm rounded, horny, white, seated on a broad cushion of placental tissue. Embryo cylindrical, oblique or transverse, almost straight.
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