Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, the stipules soon caducous; blade entire or serrate along the margins, 3-nerved from the base, with 2 glands on the upper side at the base. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, in large, compound, repeatedly 3-to 4-radiate umbels. Flowers small, I , pedicellate; sepals (3)4, valvate, persistent; petals (3)4, valvate, persistent; stamens so, free, inserted on a glandular or eglandular disc, the filaments filiform, the anthers small, subglobose, 2-thecate, basifixed, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary free, superior, 2-(3-)celled by complete union of the 2(3) opposite parietal placentas, the ovules so, the style simple, entire. Fruits baccate, each cell usually 1-seeded; seeds pendulous, the testa coriaceous, the endosperm present; embryo straight; cotyledons foliaceous.
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