Shrubs and small trees, unarmed, terrestrial, without raphides in the tissues, sometimes with buds resinous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, with tertiary and quaternary venation not lineolate, without or occasionally with pubescent domatia; stipules caducous, interpetiolar, triangular, perhaps imbricated in bud. Inflorescences terminal, cymose, multiflowered, pedunculate, bracteate with bracts often foliaceous and usually deciduous. Flowers pedicellate, bisexual, homosylous, protandrous, somewhat large and showy, diurnal, perhaps fragrantl; hypanthium obconic to turbinate; calyx limb developed, 5-lobed, on a few of the oldest flowers with obovate to elliptic, pink, petaloid calycophyll; corolla tubular with weak basal swelling, pink to cream, internally glabrous except with pilosulous ring near base, lobes 5, narrowly triangular, in bud valvate, without appendage; stamens 5, inserted near base of corolla tube, anthers narrowly ellipsoid, dorsifixed, opening by longitudinal slits, without appendage or sometimes with apiculate connective tip; ovary 2-locular, ovules numerous in each locule, on axile placentas, stigmas 2, ligulate and closely set, exserted. Fruit capsular, ellipsoid to subglobose, loculicidally dehiscent from apex, chartaceous, lenticellate, with calyx limb deciduous; seeds numerous, elliptic, flattened, winged, medium-sized (3--10 mm), winged, seed surface foveolate-reticulate.