Shrubs or trees. Leaves with the blades membranous or thinly chartaceous, the intervenal areas lineolate, petiolate, the stipules large, caducous. Inflorescences cymose (or flowers occasionally solitary). Flowers large, 5-merous, tend-ing to become zygomorphic, the calyx large, spathaceous or bilabiate; corolla tubular or funnelform, usually curved, the lobes short, plicate valvate; stamens often unequal in length, inserted near the middle of the tube; style slender, elon-gate, the ovary 2-celled, the ovules numerous, the placentas adnate peltately to the septum. Fruits baccate, round; seeds numerous, foveolate.
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