Flowers 5-to 9-merous. Hypanthium campanulate to cup-shaped, always pubescent. Sepals usually short, conspicuously exceeded by the exterior teeth. Petals obovate. Stamens isomorphic; filaments smooth, slender; anthers subulate or linear, 2-celled; connective more or less elevated along the thecae, unappendaged, not prolonged at base or very briefly so. Ovary inferior only at base, 5-to 9-celled; style slender, elongate; stigma capitate to punctiform. Fruit a berry with numer-ous minute seeds. Shrubs or small trees of various aspect, with petiolate leaves and terminal panicles of large or medium-sized flowers.
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