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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, pinnately veined; pellucid glands minute. Inflorescence axillary, of 1–3 (–7)-flowered cymes. Flowers showy, sessile on pedicel-like peduncle; perianth and stamens epigynous. Hypanthium campanulate or pyriform, prolonged above ovary. Sepals 4 or 5, connate in bud, distinct at anthesis or splitting irregularly down to ovary (forming 2–5 calyx lobes). Petals 4 or 5, free, spreading, inserted on calyx lobes, caducous, often showy. Stamens numerous, free, shorter than petals. Ovary inferior, (2–) 3–5 (–7)-locular; ovules numerous. Fruit a berry, usually crowned with persistent sepals. Seeds usually numerous, bony, embedded in a juicy pulp.
Shrubs or small trees. Bark gray, smooth. Branchlets pubescent. Leaves opposite, petiolate; leaf blade pinnately veined. Flowers axillary, large, usually 1 or 2 per axil. Bracts 2. Hypanthium campanulate or urceolate. Calyx lobes 4 or 5, unequal. Petals 4 or 5, white. Stamens many, separate, in many whorls; anthers ellipsoid, basifixed, locules parallel, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary inferior, adnate to hypanthium, 4-or 5-loculed or more; ovules numerous. Style linear; stigma expanded. Berry globose to pyriform, fleshy, many-seeded, apex with persistent calyx lobes; placenta well developed, fleshy. Seed coat hard; embryo curved; hypocotyl long; cotyledons short.
Shrubs or trees. Lvs opposite, not obviously glandular. Fls axillary, solitary or few in dichasial cymes, often large. Hypanthium campanulate or pyriform, prolonged above ovary, splitting irregularly at or after anthesis; calyx limb 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, free, spreading, ± caducous. Stamens numerous, in many series, free, < petals; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary usually 4-5-celled; ovules many; style often > stamens. Fr. baccate and very fleshy, globose, ovoid or pyriform, usually with persistent calyx lobes; seeds few to many.
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite (at least in ours). Inflorescence axillary, 1–3-flowered. Calyx unlobed and almost or completely concealing the corolla before anthesis, subsequently splitting irregularly into 4–5 lobes, persistent. Petals 4–5. Stamens numerous, free. Ovary imperfectly (2–)4–5(–7)-locular with 4–5 intrusive parietal placentas; ovules numerous. Fruit a berry with numerous angular seeds.
Calyx unlobed and almost or completely concealing the corolla before anthesis, subsequently splitting irregularly into 4–5-lobes, persistent.
Ovary imperfectly 4–5-locular, with 4–5 intrusive, parietal placentae; ovules numerous.
Fruit a berry with numerous angular seeds.
Inflorescence axillary, 1–3-flowered.
Stamens numerous, free.
Trees or shrubs.
Petals 4–5.
