Japan Flora: Glabrous shrub, sparingly branched, the branches prostrate or decumbent, slender, 1-1.5 m. long, elongate, terete, reddish brown, be­coming dark brown in age; leaves alternate, somewhat coria­ceous, oblong, broadly lanceolate to narrowly obovate, 3-8 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, acute at both ends, entire or with few mucronate teeth near tip, deep green, paler beneath, with im­pressed obsolete glands, the midrib slightly raised, the petioles 5-10 mm. long; flowers few, fasciculate in leaf-axils, the pedi­cels 3-4 mm. long, with a small bract at base; calyx-segments narrowly ovate-oblong, about 1 mm. long; corolla-lobes ob­lanceolate, obtuse, 2-2.5 mm. long; style rather thickened at base, the stigma punctate; fruit red, globose, about 5 mm. across. Nov .-Dec. Thickets in hills.

Honshu (Yamato and Suwo Prov.), Kyushu (Yakushima); very rare. Taiwan and China.