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Corolla mostly sweet-scented, funnel-shaped or ± salver-shaped, the tube usually elongate and cylindrical but sometimes shorter than the limb; lobes 5, valvate.
Inflorescences cymose, terminal, usually many-flowered, ± capitate to laxly paniculate; bracts and bracteoles present, the latter often adnate to the calyx.
Flowers often (but apparently not always) heterostylous but not always with anthers well-exserted.
Fruit globose, obovoid, oblong-ellipsoid or fusiform, smooth or ribbed, indehiscent, ± fleshy.
Pyrenes and seeds similarly shaped, globose to fusiform; albumen copious; embryo small, erect.
Stipules intrapetiolar, joined, the sheath distinctly leafy or truncate or with 4-many setae.
Calyx tube globose, obovoid or ovoid, the limb campanulate, ± truncate or 5-lobed.
Leaves opposite, mostly distinctly petiolate, often rather coriaceous.
Stamens inserted beneath the throat; anthers linear, included.
Usually glabrous evergreen trees and shrubs.
