Japan Flora: Small evergreen tree with stout terete red-brown branches, thinly brown-pubescent while young; leaves thick, oblong-lanceolate to broadly oblanceolate, 8-15 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, acute to acuminate, acute at base, entire or with few short teeth on upper margin, deep green and lustrous, glau­cous and the midrib redcHsh beneath, the petioles 1-1.5 cm. long; inflorescence very short, axillary, densely brown-woolly; flowers sessile, about 6 mm. across; anthers purplish; fruit oblong-ovoid, 12-15 mm. in diameter; July-Aug.

Honshu (Awa Prov. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus, For­mosa, China, and Indochina.