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Calyx-tube oblong or campanulate, equalling the ovary; limb 5-partite, with short erect fleshy setæ at base; lobes equal, elongated, foliaceous or somewhat so, contorted dextrorsely (as seen from within) in bud, persistent. Corolla salver-shaped; tube slender, elongated, silky outside; limb 5-partite; throat more or less hairy; lobes elongated, subequal, contorted dextrorsely in bud. Stamens 5; anthers sessile, narrowly linear, glabrous, included or partly exserted, inserted by the middle at the throat of the corolla. Disk fleshy. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, bifid at apex; ovules numerous, sessile, peltately attached to the fleshy placentas. Fruit ovoid, 2-celled; cells many-seeded. Seeds angular, closely packed together. —Glabrous or puberulous erect branched leafy shrubs of some size, with opposite chartaceous glossy leaves, rather large broad ovate stipules and large hermaphrodite flowers in dense terminal sessile or subsessile cymes.