Japan Flora: Small deciduous tree, glabrous, the branches yellowish gray, the slender branchlets deciduous with the leaves; leaves rather coriaceous, ovate or broadly deltoid-ovate, 4-6 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, caudately acuminate, rounded and petiolate at base, entire, the petioles rather broad, 4-7 mm. long; spikes loosely 2- to 4-flowered, peduncled, the flowers sessile, yellow, the perianth-tube 6-7 mm. lang, tubular, the lobes ovate, slightly recurved above, about 3 mm. long; ovary about 2 mm. long, inferior; drupe ellipsaidal, about 8 mm. long. Apr.

Kyu­shu. Ryukyus.