Japan Flora: Small evergreen tree, the branchlets, under side of leaves, petioles, and inflorescence densely rusty- to yellow-brown soft woolly- pubescent; leaves simple, obovate-oblong, 12-20 cm. long, 4-6 OT. wide, shortly to abruptly acuminate, gradually cuneate from above the middle to the base, subentire or with few coarse short awned teeth, the lateral nerves 10-14 pairs, ending in the teeth, slightly curved upward, the veinlets prominently raised-reticulate beneath, the petioles 2-4 cm. long; panicles pyramidal, leafy below, 15-20 cm. long and as wide； flowers sessile, about 4 mm. across; sepals suborbicular, the 3 outer petak rounded-cordate, about 2.5 mm. across; fruit globose, black.- June. Woods and thickets in low moun­tains.

Honshu (Tokaido and s. Kinki Distr.), Shikoku, Kyu­shu. Ryukyus, Formosa, and China.