Flowers diœcious. Petals present. Male flower: Sepals 5, imbricate, subequal. Petals 5, slightly larger than the sepals. Disc-glands thick, villous. Stamens 5; filaments connate for half their length, spreading in the upper part around a villous tripartite rudimentary ovary; anther-cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Female flower: Sepals and petals as in the male. Disc annular, thick, villous. Ovary ovoid-globose, 3-celled, tomentose; styles short, recurved-spreading, shortly bifid; ovules 2 in each ovary-cell. Capsule breaking up into 2-valved cocci; pericarp thick and crustaceous. Seeds subglobose, smooth; albumen scanty; cotyledons broad, much contorted-plicate. A much-branched shrub; leaves rather small, alternate, coriaceous, entire; flowers fasciculate in the leaf-axils, the male shortly pedicellate, the female fewer than the male or subsolitary, long pedicellate.