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     Epiphytic shrubs.  Leaves short petiolate, subcoriaceous, plinerved, entire.  Inflorescences terminal or rarely axillary, racemose, 5-12-flowered;   floral bract minute, papery;  bracteoles 2, medial.  Flowers 5-merous;  aestivation unknown (probably valvate);  calyx articulate with the pedicel;  hypanthium fleshy, subglobose, conspicuously and broadly 5-winged to the sinuses;  limb erect;  lobes inconspicuous, minutely apiculate;  corolla carnose, cylindric, inconspicuously 5-angled, the lobes small, deltoid;  stamens 10, equal, about half as long as the orolla;  filaments distinct, membranaceous;  anthers inserted dorsally near the base;  thecae slightly to coarsely granular, basally short mucronate;  connectives alternately but inconspicuously spurred medially and dorsally;  tubules flexible, dehiscing over entire length by elongate clefts;  style filiform, equalling or slightly exceeding the corolla;  ovary inferior, 5-loculate;  disc annular.  Fruit a berry.

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