Trees. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, petiolate; stipules interpetiolar, often per-sistent, triangular, connate basally. Inflorescence of a single axillary or terminal cyme, the flowers several, occasionally solitary. Flowers large, bisexual, 5-6-merous; calyx campanulate or turbinate, truncate, the teeth absent or of 5-6 short lobes; corolla short cylindrical, the lobes 5-6, contorted in bud, often longer than the tube; stamens 5-6, the anthers usually sessile, inserted at the mouth, dorsi-fixed, exserted; ovary 2-celled, the ovules numerous, usually disposed horizon-tally. Fruits baccate, usually globose, smooth, leathery, the wall thick, the seeds numerous, large, usually trapeziform, disposed in several rows in a fleshy pulp.
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