Shrubs with densely grey-pilose branchlets. Leaves simple, oblong-spathulate, entire, coriaceous, crowded at the apices of the branchlets, exstipulate. Inflorescence few-flowered axillary cymes with large bracts and bracteoles. Flowers regular, bisexual. Calyx 5-partite, lobes acuminate, imbricate, persistent. Petals 5, obovate, shortly clawed, imbricate. Stamens 5 + 5, the inner shorter, sometimes sterile; filaments persistent, subulate, pilose at the lower half; anthers 2-celled, small, medifixed. Disc inconspicuous. Ovary of 5 free carpels, each 2-ovuled; styles gynobasic, filiform, as many as the carpels; stigma scarcely capitate. Fruits 3-5 one seeded drupes enclosed by persistent calyx. Embryo hippocrepiform, exalbuminous.