Ruyschia Jacq.

Shrubs, often epiphytic, or vines. Leaves coriaceous, often rigid. Inflorescences terminal multiflorous racemes; nectaries-small, to 5 mm long, mostly solid and gibbose to subglobose, mostly inserted at the base of the flowers. Flowers often fragrant, short-pedicellate; bracteoles sepaloid, appressed to the calyx, persistent; sepals 5, slightly unequal, persistent; petals free or shortly united basally, re-flexed at anthesis; stamens 5 or 3, the filaments flattened, ? adnate to the bases of the petals, the anthers ovate to globose; ovary 2-loculed, ovules to ca. 20 per