Japan Flora: Evergreen tree with greenish branchlets; leaves coriaceous, oblong or ovate-oblong, 8-18 cm. long, 4-7 cm. wide, obtuse, 3-nerved from above the base, white beneath, densely yellow-brown silky while young, glabrescent or the hairs becoming scattered, the petioles 2-3 cm. long; inflorescence umbellate, sessile, yellow-brown villous, the pedicels 7-10 mm. long in fruit, shghtly thickened above; fruit ellipsoidal, 12-15 mm. long, red. Sept.-Oct.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea, Formosa, and China.