Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, subcoriaceous, or membrana-ceous, glandular at the base; stipules connate, intra-axillary. Inflorescences ter-minal, spiciform in elongated panicles with short branches or solitary in pseu-doracemes; bracts small, eglandular; bracteoles with a dorsal gland, a stalked axillary gland or eglandular. Flowers with the calyx 8-10 glandular; sepals ovate or elliptic, glabrous or puberulous; petals pink or reddish, clawed, glabrous, the limb suborbicular, obovate or elliptic; claw broadening toward the base; stamens 10, the filaments flattened, short and briefly united at the base, pubescent at the base, otherwise glabrous, the anthers ovoid or oblong, glabrous, the connective not thickened; ovary 3-or 2-carpellate, 3-or 2-locular, 3-or 2-lobate, 3-or 2-ovulate; styles 1 per locule, flexuous, with the apex somewhat thickened and truncate. Fruit a coriaceous schizocarp of 2 or 3 separable, ellipsoid cocci, each coccus 1-seeded, hard, smooth; cotyledons thick, semiellipsoid.
Home