Trees or shrubs, the wood turning red to purple on cutting. Leaves large; stipules persistent or caducous, usually large and glandular basally. Inflores-cences terminal or axillary, paniculate, the flowers in cymes or capitate. Flowers pedicellate or sessile, bibracteolate; calycine cup cupuliform or bell shaped, trun-cate, edentate or with 4-6 teeth; corolla variable in color, fragrant, tubular to campanulate, the lobes 4-5, imbricate; stamens 4-6, exserted, the anthers dor-sifixed, sagittate at the base, the filaments connate basally, attached near the middle or at the base of the tube, villous; ovary 2-celled, the ovules numerous, horizontally biseriate. Fruits capsular, usually globose, loculicidally dehiscent; seeds numerous, large, winged horizontally.
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