Shrubs or trees, evergreen, glabrous. Leaves opposite, entire or serrate. Flowers axillary and terminal, in fascicles or in very short racemes. Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla lobes 4, elliptic, obtuse, imbricate. Stamens 2, subsessile. Style short or cylindric, 2-lobed or subentire. Drupe ovoid or globose. Seed pendulous, usually solitary.