Tree with grayish or whitish bark, the branchlets glabrous or nearly so, dark purple-brown to dark red-brown; leaves elliptic, obovate or ovate, 4-8 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm, wide, rather thin, acute, coarsely doubly toothed, the base obtuse to rounded, vivid green and glabrous above, glaucous and slightly appressed-pilose on nerves beneath, the lateral nerves of 8 to 14 pairs, the petioles 7-15 mm. long, white-silky while young; fruiting aments erect, short-peduncu- late, 3-4 cm. long, oblong-cylindric, the fruiting scales thinly long-pilose, 12-15 mm. long, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes ascend- ing, about half as long as the midlobe; nuts ovoid-orbicular, about 3 mm. long, narrowly winged on both sides.--Mountains;

Honshu (Kinki Distr. and eastw.).