Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, coriaceous; stipules intraxillary, completely united or only connate at the base. Inflorescences axillary-subterminal, forming umbelliform fascicles; pedicels sessile; sepals ovate-oblong, pilose on outside; calycine glands usually 10, sometimes 6 or 7 or lacking; petals white or pink, the limb obovate-orbicular or rounded with the margin subentire or variously fes-tooned, villose abaxially, the claw broad and villose; filaments briefly united and hirsutulous at the base; anthers ellipsoid to ovoid, glabrous, the thecae oblong with a narrow lateral wing externally, the connective thickened, enlarged at the apex and surpassing the thecae; ovary lanuginous to hirsute, tricoccoid, deeply sunken at the apex, trilocular, triovular; styles 3, affixed at the base of ovarian depression, subulate, glabrous; torus lanuginous. Fruits tricoccoid with the cocci subspherical, indehiscent, the pericarp thin, coriaceous and rigid.
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