Japan Flora: Evergreen small tree or large shrub; branches lenticellate, the branchlets grayish puberulent; leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to oblong, 6-9 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, short-acuminate with an obtuse tip, acuminate at base, glabrous, deep green on upper side, brownish appressed- hairy beneath while very young, entire; flowers short-pedi­cel led, pale yellow; calyx-lobes deltoid, brownish pilose; corolla campanulate, 7-8 mm. long, glabrous outside; ovary glabrous; fruit globose, 1.5-2 cm. across.  June. '

Honshu (Izu Prov. and westw. through Tokaido and Kii Prov. to Chugoku Distr.), Shikoku, Kyushu.  Ryukyus, Formosa, and s. China.