Japan Flora: Evergreen tree with glabrous branches, the bud-scales many, ciliate; leaves lanceolate or obovate-oblong, 8-20 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, sometimes oblanceolate, somewhat lustrous, whitish with slighdy raised veinlets beneath, gradually acuminate or caudate, acute at base, the petioles 15-20 mm. long; inflorescence glabrous; flowers pedicelled, the perianth-segments 4-5 mm. long, narrowly oblong, puberulent inside and on margin; fruit globose, about 10 mm. long. May-June.

Honshu (Kinki Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. s. Korea and Ryukyus (?).