Japan Flora: Glabrous tree; leaves coriaceous, obovate to oblong-elliptic, 3-7.5 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, obtuse to rounded, sometimes retuse or broadly short- acuminate, acute at base, nearly entire or remotely crenate on the recurved and thickened margin, dark brown when dry, the midrib raised beneath, the lateral nerves reticulate beneath, the petioles 1-1.6 cm. long; pistillate flowers 2-4 in axillary fascicles, the pedicels 9-14 mm. long; calyx-lobes 4-5, rounded, ciliate; fruit globose, 6 mm. across.

Reported from Kyushu (Yakushima and Tanegashima). Ryukyus.