Japan Flora: Evergreen, glabrous tree with thick branchlets; leaves coria­ceous, oblong or narrowly so, 6-12 cm. long, abruptly acute to rounded at base, glaucous beneath, with 8-10 pairs of lateral nerves, the petioles 1.5-3 cm. long; racemes 4-8 cm. long, several-flowered; flowers pedicellate, the staminate with about 8-stamens; ovary in pistillate flowers broadly ovoid; fruit ellipsoidal, 8-10 mm. long. May. Honshu (centr. distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus and Formosa.

Var. hisautii Hurusawa. Leaves thinner, chartaceous, with petioles 3-5 cm. long; fruiting racemes pendulous. With the typical phase