Trees to 20--30 m, unarmed, terrestrial, without raphides in the tissues, at least sometimes deciduous and flowering with the new leaves. Leaves opposite, petiolate, entire, with higher-order venation lineolate, with pubescent domatia; stipules interpetiolar, triangular, acuminate, apparently valvate in bud, caducous, adaxially with dense line of sericeous pubescence. Inflorescences axillary and ramiflorous, cymose-corymbiform, several- to multiflowered, pedunculate, with axes scorpioid, bracts reduced to developed. Flowers subsessile, ebracteolate, bisexual, homostylous, protoandrous, strongly fragrant, diurnal; hypanthium ellipsoid; calyx limb developed, (4)5-lobed, without calycophylls; corolla slenderly salverform, small (2.5--5 mm long), white to yellow, internally strigose or perhaps glabrous in tube and hirtellous on lobes, lobes 5, narrowly triangular, equal to or longer than tube, imbricated in bud, without appendages; stamens 5, inserted at top of corolla tube, anthers narrowly oblong, dorsifixed near base, exserted, opening by linear slits, without appendage; ovary 2-locular, ovules 1 per locule, pendulous from apical placentas; stigmas 2, narrowly ellipsoid and stout, exserted. Fruits drupaceous, obovoid-ellipsoid, juicy, red, small (5--6 mm long) to medium-sized (20--25 mm long), with calyx limb persistent; pyrene 1, 2 locular, obovoid-ellipsoid, bony; seeds cylindrical, smooth.