Japan Flora: Large evergreen tree with stout, terete, glabrous branches, the bud-scales many, the inner ones yellow-brown, woolly; leaves coriaceous, obovate, elliptic or broadly oblanceolate, 8-15 cm. long, 3-7 cm. wide, abruptly obtuse, usually acute at base, lustrous and deep green above, penninerved, pale green and with slighriy raised veinlets beneath, die petioles 2-3 cm. long, stout; inflorescence glabrous; flowers pedicelled, the perianth-segments 5-7 mm. long, narrowly oblong, brown-pubescent inside; fruit globose, about 10 mm. across, black-purple. Mar.-May. Hills, lowlands, and foothills. 

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. s. Korea, Ryukyus, Formosa, and China.