Prostrate herbs, unarmed, terrestrial, with raphides in the tissues, with trailing stems rooting at the nodes. Leaves opposite, petiolate, entire, with higher order venation not lineolate, without domatia; stipules interpetiolar and fused to bases of petioles, truncate to triangular and sometimes 3--5-lobed with segments usually glandular, erect to reflexed and apparently valvate in bud, persistent. Inflorescences terminal and pseudoaxillary, unbranched, 2(3)-flowered, bracts reduced. Flowers of an inflorescence fused together by their hypanthia (i.e., ovary portions), sessile or pedunculate as a group, bisexual, distylous, apparently diurnal; calyx limb reveloped and 3()4(--6)-lobed, without calycophylls; corolla funnelform, white, glabrous inside except pilose in throat and on lobes, lobes (3)4(--6), triangular, valvate in bud, without appendages; stamens 4(5), inserted in upper part of corolla tube, exserted or positioned in throat, anthers oblong, basifixed, dehiscent by linear slits, apparently without appendages; ovary 4-locular, with ovules solitary in each locule, axile, stigmas 4, linear, included or exserted. Fruit drupaceous and multiple, sublglobose to oblate, juicy, orange to red, with calyx limb persistent; pyenes 4 per flower and 8(--12) per fruit, 1-locular, angled, bony, dehiscence mode unknown; seeds 1 per pyrene.