Flowers 5-to 6-merous. Hypanthium campanulate, thick-walled. Calyx-tube distinctly prolonged; sepals small or large, ovate or triangular or nearly obsolete; exterior teeth minute or concealed. Stamens isomorphic; filaments slender, glabrous; anthers subulate or linear, often beaked; connective neither appendaged nor prolonged. Ovary inferior, 5-to 6-celled; style stout, enlarged toward the summit; stigma punctiform or truncate. Fruit a many-seeded berry. Trees or shrubs with large, usually pli-nerved leaves and medium-sized flowers borne in small axillary clusters below the existing leaves.
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