Baphiopsis

Unarmed evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, unifoliolate; stipules very small and soon falling off; blade without pellucid dots. Flowers bisexual, in short racemes or almost fasciculate, each flower subtended by 2 small nervose caducous bracteoles. Calyx ellipsoid and entire before dehiscence, opening by a single slit and reflexing, or becoming divided into 2 or 3 lobes; no disc or cupular hypanthium. Petals 6, almost equal, imbricate, upper one with its margins overlapped. Stamens 13-41, arranged around base of ovary, free or almost so; anthers basifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits; connective not glandular. Ovary sessile or nearly so, 2-5-ovuled, tapering upwards into a subulate style which is bent in its upper part and bears a minute capitate stigma. Pods thick, beaked l(2)-seeded. Seeds large, thin-walled, apparently not arillate, without endosperm; embryo curved.