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     Shrubs or subshrubs.  Leaves alternate, coriaceous to membranous, subimbricate or laxly-spaced, evergreen and persistent or deciduous, margin entire, glandular-crenate or subserrate, apex with a subsessile gland, pubescence simple, sometimes glandular, pinnately-nerved.  Inflorescence axillary, racemose, or flowers solitary.  Flowers 4-5-merous, without odor;  (corolla) aestivation imbricate;  calyx articulate with pedicel;  hypanthium turbinate to hemispheric;  lobes connivent or inflexed in fruit;  corolla cylindric, urceolate, or campanulate, short-lobed, often 5-angled, white or red;  stamen 10, equal, about as long as corolla;  filaments distinct, shorter than anthers (rarely longer), almost always pilose and/or ciliate, lacking spurs;  anthers dorsifixed above middle, lacking disintegration tissue;  thecae smooth;  tubules thin, dehiscing through narrowly oblong, lateral to subterminal pores;  pollen lacking viscin threads;  ovary pseudo-10-locular;  style equalling stamen or a little longer.  Fruit a drupe with 10 pyrenes, carnose, succulent, and obtusely (8-) 10-ribbed when mature.

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