Japan Flora: Glabrous small evergreen tree with slender, green, 4-angled branchlets; leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly lanceolate, 3-7 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, long-acuminate, obtuse to acute at base, remotely and obtusely serrate, the lateral nerves obsolete, the petioles slender, 2-3 mm. long; inflorescence 2.5-5 cm. long, 1- to 3-flowercd, the peduncles very slender; flowers 4- mcrous, about 6 mm. across, pale green; calyx-teeth depressed-rounded, minutely denticulate on margin; petals or­bicular; carpels 1 or 2, rarely 3, oblong, about 8 mm. long; seeds enclosed in a yellowish aril.

Kyushu (s. distr.).  Ryukyus.