Japan Flora: Evergreen, glabrous tree with thick green branchlets; leaves coriaceous, fascicled at the tips of branchlets, narrowly oblong or narrowly obovate-oblong, 15-20 cm. long, 4-7 cm. wide, abruptly acute, acute to obtuse at base, entire, deep green and lustrous on upper side, glaucous beneath, the lateral nerves 16-19 pairs, the petioles redcHsh，4-6 cm. long; racemes axil­lary, 4-8 cm. long; flowers yellowish green, pedicellate, the staminate with about 10 stamens; ovary in the pistillate flow­ers ellipsoidal to broadly ovoid, about 2 mm. long, sur­rounded at the base by a series of staminodes, the styles 2(-4); drupe ellipsoidal, dark blue, about 1 cm. long.  May-June. Woods

Honshu (centr. distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu.  s. Korea.