Ochrosia Juss.

Trees or shrubs with white latex. Branchlets terete, subangular or angular, glabrous, not lenticellate. Leaves in whorls of 2-4(-6), papyraceous to coriaceous when dried, glabrous. Inflorescence terminal and axillary cymes, in whorls or solitary, loose or congested, glabrous, often with bracts; peduncle sometimes winged (in Malesia occurs only in 2 species). Flowers sometimes fragrant, small, pedicellate; pedicels bracteolate. Sepals ovate, or suborbicular to orbicular, without colleters inside, connate at base. Corolla salverform, villose inside, glabrous outside; lobes elliptic, obovate, narrowly elliptic or narrowly ovate, dextrorse, glabrous. Stamens included, free from each other and gynoecium; filaments filiform, short. Gynoecium of 2 carpels (which are usually distinctly separated); disk absent or of 2 lobes, small; style filiform, split or not at base. Fruit usually apocarpous, rarely hemisyncarpous or syncarpous, drupaceous, smooth to verrucose, or with fine irregular ridges when dried, green and turning yellow, orange, red or purple when ripe; mericarps ellipsoid, obovoid, ovoid or subglobose, rarely (not in Malesian species) discoid or boat-shaped, round in transverse section or dorsiventrally compressed, sometimes with lateral and/or apical ridges, or with lateral and/or apical wing (not in Malesian species); endocarps split into diverging fibres, or consisting of thick and massive tissue, surrounding 2 lateral cavities. Seeds 1-3 on each placenta, with a wing-like structure along the margin.