Funtumia

Evergreen trees or shrubs, with white sticky latex; bark smooth, sometimes with a few lenticels; wood of low density, soft; branches terete, sometimes lenticellate, very dark brown; branchlets smooth, terete or laterally compressed with a longitudinal groove below the ocrea. Leaves opposite, petiolate, those of a pair connate into a short ocrea, with many small colleters in 2 or 3 rows in axils; lamina ovate, elliptic or oblong, decurrent into petiole, acuminate at apex, entire, glabrous above; often with domatia in axils of secondary veins; margin both undulate and revolute. Inflorescences congested, terminal and axillary, cymose, much shorter than leaves; peduncle short; bracts ovate or elliptic, often with small colleters in axils. Flowers regular, fleshy, fragrant. Sepals free, thick, ovate or nearly so, obtuse or subacute at apex, often membranous and minutely ciliate at margin, inside with a single row of colleters at base. Corolla : tube ventricose at middle, inside thickened at throat, densely hirto-pubescent from insertion of stamens to level of apex of ovary; lobes overlapping in bud to the right, entire, recurved. Stamens included; filaments very short or absent; anthers narrowly triangular, introrse. Ovary of 2 almost free carpels united by base of style; clavuncula grading into a conical stigma; disc 5-lobed; ovules pendulous. Follicles 2, connate at base. Seeds slender, fusiform, apex with long straight hairs; testa rugose; embryo straight.