Japan Flora: Glabrous evergreen tree with rather stout graybrown branches; leaves coriaceous, oblong or narrowly so, 7-12 cm. long, 3.5-5 cm. wide, rounded at both ends, with an obtusely cuspidate apex, entire, the lateral nerves 6 to 9 pairs, slender, ascending, parallel, arcuate near the margin, the petioles 3-6 cm. long, rather stout; receptacles globose, 6-8 mm. across, the peduncles 3-7 mm. long, puberulous.
Honshu (Kii Prov.), Shikoku, Kyushu; rather common on lowlands near the sea. Ryukyus, Formosa, and China.