Trees. Leaves usually subopposite, varying from somewhat alternate to strictly opposite, petiolate; blades penninerved, strongly glandular-serrulate, the tertiary nervature rather elegantly per current, each juncture of a secondary nerve and the midrib marked beneath by a peculiar minute (? glandular) process. Stipules subulate, caducous. Flowers perfect, 5-merous, in divaricately branched axillary cymes often several cm. long. Sepals deltoid. Petals not at all clawed, extremely concavo-convex so that the anther is almost totally obscured even at the time of its dehiscence. Anther sessile or nearly so. Disk thin, lining the cup at its rim, minutely 10-lobed with 2 lobes opposite each anther and petal. Ovary elongate, apparently 1-celled, the mesocarpous tissue somewhat spongy or fleshy and with numerous (?resin) cavities, the endocarp thin and becoming stony; style projecting only slightly above the petals, simple, expanded at top into a narrowly mushroom-shaped form and usually marked at top by furrows into (4)5 portions, each of which bears 2 minute tooth-like lobes. Fruit a drupe with a single 1-seeded stone.
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