Japan Flora: Branches slender, dark red-brown, glabrous; leaves thinly coriaceous, rather densely disposed toward the top of the branches, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 7-13 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, long-acuminate, vivid or rather pale green, slightly paler beneath, subentire or with teeth undulate-ascending and awn-tipped, decurrent to an obscure or very short petiole, the midrib slightly raised or flat above, reddish beneath, the lateral nerves 8 to 13 pairs, very slender. Mountains;

Kyushu.