magnification; petioles occasionally bearing auricles, occasionally absent; stipules free, large, acute. Inflorescences axillary, cymose corymbose; peduncle usually present, bracteate. Flowers with the hypanthium turbinate or campanulate, the calycine cup coriaceous, the wall replete with tough fibers, often with glands inside, spathaceous or 5-6-lobate; corolla funnelform or tubular, coriaceous, gla-brous or villose within, the lobes 5-6, short, valvate; stamens 5-6, the anthers dorsifixed, included, the filaments equal or unequal in length, usually villose at the base, attached to the tube; ovarian disc annular or cupuliform, the stigmas narrow, obtuse, the ovary 2-celled, the ovules numerous, the placentas elongate, swollen, adnate to the septum. Fruits baccate, nutlike when dry, globular, often lenticellate; seeds numerous, obtusely angular, the testa thin.
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Shrubs or small trees, rarely large trees, usually with stems simple, the stems often succulent. Leaves usually large, entire or pinnatifid lobed, lineolate under
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