Herbs, perennial, erect, repeatedly branched about 1 m high; stems in the upper part pubescent; leaves alternate, exstipulate, elliptic-ovate or lanceolate, acuminate at apex, obutse or subcordate at base, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent on the midrib beneath; petioles stout, pubescent; flowers in terminal, shortly peduncled racemes, 4-10 cm long, sparsely hairy, pedicels short; slender; bracts small, linear- lanceolate, membranous; tepals 4-5, sepaloid, white or creamy, broadly oblong, obtuse, imbricate in bud; stamens 4, alternating the tepals, filaments filiform, anthers oblong, erect; ovary subgloboase, unilocular, ovule solitary, style short, stigma capitate; fruit berry, subglobose, 1 seeded, crimson red on maturity.