Japan Flora: Gla­brous evergreen shrub 30-80 cm. high; stems terete, green, spreading, the nodes slightly swollen; leaves oblong or ovate- oblong, 10-15 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, deep green, lustrous, sharply serrate, acuminate, the petioles 5-15 mm. long; spikes terminal, short-pedunculate, simple to few-branched below, 15-30 mm. long, erect; flowers small, white; stamen 1, the anther 2-locular, introrse; fruit fleshy, globose, orange-scarlet, 5-7 mm. in diameter. Woods.

Honshu (Tokaido and Kinki Distr.), Shikoku, Kyushu; rather common. s. Korea,  Ryukyus, Formosa, China, India, and Malaysia.