Flora of New Zealand Series

Fls in cymose panicles; sepals and petals 4-5; staminal tube cylindric, toothed at mouth; anthers 8-10, included in tube; disk tubular, sheathing 3-5-celled ovary. Ovules us. 2 per cell; capsule loculicidally dehiscent; seeds and cots large. Trees with alt. pinnate lvs. Some 150 spp., mainly tropical and subtropical. The N.Z. sp. endemic.