Japan Flora: Evergreen tree with fulvous appressed- pubescent young branches and inflorescence; leaves short-petio- hte, oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 6-12 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, acute with an obtuse point or subobtuse, acute and slightly decurrent to the petiole, shallowly obtuse-toothed, glabrous; racemes 4-7 cm. long, rather many-flowered, short white appressed-pubescent, the pedicels 3-8 mm. long; petals obovate- cuneate, white, shorter tlian the appressed-pubescent sepals, deeply laciniate with filiform lobes, puberulous within at base; fruit narrowly ovoid, obtuse, 1.5-1.8 cm. long. July-Aug.

Honshu (A'va and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus and Formosa.