Japan Flora: Glabrous much-branched shrub with slender branches loosely puberulent while young; leaves broadly oblanceolate to nar­rowly obovate, 5-8 (-10) cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, acuminate, slightly oblique and acute to obtuse at base, entire, sometimes with scattered minute hairs on the midrib beneath, the lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, arcuate above, the petioles 3-5 mm. long; racemes nearly sessile, 4-6 cm. long, at first puberulent; staminate flowers nearly sessile, about 2 mm. across; sepals 3- to 5-lobed, the segments deltoid; stamens 2-5; pistillate flowers on spreading pedicels 2-4 mm. long; drupe obliquely ellipsoidal, red, about 5 mm. long, the persistent styles 3-4, short, spreading.          

Honshu (Kii Prov.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus and Formosa.