Japan Flora: Nearly glabrous dioecious evergreen tree dark brown when dried, the branches dark gray; leaves rather coriaceous, oblong or narrowly so, 7-12 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. wide, caudately elongate with an acute to subobtuse tip, with scattered short teeth, the petioles 1-1.5 cm. long; in­florescence solitary in axils of the current year’s shoots, the peduncles 5-10 mm. long, rather thick and flat, the pedicels 2-7, 4-6 mm. long; flowers about 5 mm. across; calyx-lobes semirounded to deltoid, ciliolate; petals slightly reflexed; stamens 4; fruit globose, red, about 6 mm. across.  June. Mountains and hills.

Honshu (Suruga Prov. and westw.), Shi­koku, Kyushu. China.