Japan Flora: Small evergreen tree with rather slender, much ramulose and slightly angled branches, puberulous when young; leaves rather thinly coriaceous, oblong to narrowly so, or ovate-oblong, 4-8 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, caudatcly acuminate to abruptly acute with an obtuse tip, acute or broadly cuneate at base, remotely obtuse-toothed sometimes on upper half, green­ish yellow when dried, lustrous on upper side, the midrib prominently impressed above, raised beneath, the lateral nerves indistinct, the petioles rather slender, 4-8 mm. long; flowers about 6 mm. across, few to rather numerous, axillary, the peduncles absent, the pedicels 1-3 mm. long; petals recurved, 2.5-3 mm. long; stamens 4 or 5, erect, longer than the petals; fruits few, globose, red, 5-6 mm. across.  Apr.-May.

Hon­shu (Chugoku Distr.), Kyushu; rare.