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This family has mostly the large trees with buttressed trunks. This family has the Leaves Simple or Digitate, often curved with scurfy scales, alternate. In most of the species it has the palmate type of compound leaves but in many species we can find also the simple leaves. It has the complete flowers which are bisexual, generally large and showy, arranged in crowded fascicles with the Calyx mostly five toothed, persistent and Petal: often elongated. It bears medium to large size fruits (capsules) which dry in most cases but also has the fleshy, loculicidally dehiscent or indehiscent in nature. It has the valves and because of large size and weight, it could not fall away from the tree base. The seeds are found generally embedded in hairs from the wall of the fruit, with little or no albumen