Japan Flora: Deciduous much-branched small tree or large shrub, furfuraceous while very young; branches gray-brown, terete, the nodes with thickened pulvinilike scars; leaves mem­branous, ovate to broadly so, or elliptic, 5-12 cm. long, 2.5-7 cm. wide, acuminate, obtuse at the tip, coarsely few-toothed on upper half or entire, tlic petioles 1-3 cm. long; panicles pe­dunculate, 6-10 cm. long, loosely branched, few-flowered, the bracts linear, truncate; flowers pale greenish yellow, 8-10 mm. long, tubular-campanulate; calyx irregularly toothed; corolla glandular outside, the lobes short; fruit obovoid-globose, dark purple, 3-3.5 mm. across. May-June. Near seashores.

Honshu (s. Kinki, Chugoku Distr.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus and Formosa.