Unarmed shrubs, mostly growing as hemi-epiphytes or doubtfully as parasites, often high in the forest canopy; the ends of the twigs often an expanded cicatrix from fallen leaves or inflorescences. Leaves simple, entire, of moderate size, glabrous to tomentose with dendritic hairs; minor leaves wanting. Inflorescence an open or congested variously branched panicle not exceeding the leaves, or sometimes reduced to a short raceme or spike, the peduncles and pedicels mostly stout and not elongating greatly in fruit. Flowers sometimes showy, calyx cam-