Japan Flora: Glabrous scandent subshrub with elongate, nearly terete branches; leaves firmly chartaceous, narrowly deltoid- ovate to broadly ovate, 5-10 cm. long, 3-8 cm. wide, 5(-7)- nerved, abruptly acuminate mucronate, rounded to cordate at base, slightly lustrous, green, with raised netted-veinlets on ovules in each locule; fruit a globose berry; seeds 1-3. few both sides, the petioles 1-2.5 cm. long, with a solitary long tendril on each side; umbels many-flowered, the pistillate perianth 3-4 mm. long, with small obtuse teeth at apex. Aug.-Oct.

Kyushu (Yakushima). Ryukyus, Formosa, and China.