Shrubs or small trees. Lvs alternate or opposite, petiolate, simple, palmately lobed, exstipulate. Umbels in terminal racemes or panicles; bracts ovate-lanceolate, deciduous; bracteoles linear; calyx entire or shallowly toothed; petals 5; stamens 5; ovary 5-or 10-locular; styles 5, free; stigmas terminal. Fr. subglobose, berry-like.