Japan Flora: Evergreen, glabrous, much-branched small tree; branches 4-angled, slender, dark brown; leaves rather thick, elliptic, broadly ovate or broadly obovate, 2- 4 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, rounded to very obtuse, abruptly acute at base, the midrib impressed on upper side, raised be-neath, the nerves pinnate, parallel, ascending; petioles 2-4 mm. long; flowers rather numerous, about 3 mm. across, bracteolate at base; calyx narrowly campanulate, about 3 mm. long, the teeth very depressed and short; corolla deciduous at anthesis; fruit globose, black, about 7 mm. across.

Kyushu (s. distr.). Ryukyus, Formosa, s. China, Indochina, and Bonins.