Mascarenhasia

Shrubs or small trees with milky latex; spines and tendrils absent. Leaves opposite, obovate-oblong, oblong or elliptic; with petiolar glands; without domatia; stipules absent. Flowers often large and conspicuous, solitary or in few-flowered fasciculate cymes, terminal. Calyx : lobes imbricate, free to base, with many glandular scales inside at base. Corolla hypocrateriform; tube divided into 2 distinct regions of varying shape and proportions; lobes 5, with induplicate aestivation, straight in bud or twisted to the right. Stamens 5, sessile, inserted at base of upper region of corolla tube; anthers conniving in a cone around gynoecium, polliniferous in upper part only, joined to clavuncle by a retinacle. Receptacular disc cupular or represented by separate oppositipetalous scales, these sometimes united in pairs. Ovary of 2 free multi-ovulate carpels, glabrous or hairy; style pubescent; clavuncle swollen; stigma pointed or flared at apex, not bifid. Fruit of 2 follicular mericarps. Seeds linear-compressed with an apical coma; endosperm absent.