Japan Flora: Shrub; leaves chartaceous, narrowly obovate, 6-15 cm. long, 2-6 cm. wide, acuminate to very acute, cuneate, short-pubescent on both sides and with scattered long hairs beneath especially on nerves and on mid-rib above, whitish beneath, the lateral nerves 6 to 9 pairs, the veinlets prominent and raised beneath; inflorescence few-flowered, the pedicels slightly thickened above in fruit, 15-18 mm. long; fruit globose, about 7 mm. across, black.

Honshu (Kii Prov.), Shikoku, Kyushu.

var. glabrata Blume Leaves somewhat smaller and thinner, not short-pubescent on both surfaces but scattered long-hairy beneath. Honshu (Kanto to centr. distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu.