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Calyx campanulate persistent with 5 short teeth at the top of the short free portion of the tube. Corolla funnel-shaped; tube short or about twice the length of the calyx; throat glabrous; lobes 5, spreading, oval, about as long as the tube, dextrorsely contorted in bud (as seen from inside). Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the corolla; anthers subsessile, half-exserted, linear, glabrous, sagittate at the base. Disk fleshy, annular or cushion-shaped, not conspicuous, glabrous. Ovary 1–2-celled (1-celled above, 2-celled below); style rather slender, half cleft, exserted, exceeding the anthers; branches diverging, sulcate; ovules numerous, in 2 or 3 longitudinal rows, not immersed in the 2 placentas, pendulous. Fruit baccate, ellipsoidal, rather small, partly 2-celled, few-seeded. Seeds compressed, somewhat angular, pendulous; testa fibrous-sulcate. —Shrubs or small trees, glabrous or nearly so, with opposite slender leafy branches, opposite chartaceous or thinly coriaceous leaves, ovate or truncate apiculate stipules connate at the base and small flowers in axillary and sometimes also terminal panicles.