Japan Flora: Dioecious tree with appressed-puberulous, rather thick branches; leaves 15-30 cm. long, on petioles 4-6 cm. long, the leaflets 11-19, pedolulate, obliquely ovate or narrowly ovate, 2-7 cm. long, appressed-puberulous on upperside while young, glaucous beneath, caudate, with an obtuse tip, entire, rounded on outer margin and acute on inner margin at base; cymes terminal, densely many-flowered, puberulous; flowers small; sepals 5, broadly ovate, ciliolate; petals 5, pubescent inside; filaments in staminate flowers hairy at base on outer side; ovary in pistillate flowers deeply 4- or 5-Iobed, the style short and puberulous, the stigma rather large, with 4 or 5 undulate teeth; fruitlets densely white-puberulous inside; seeds ellip­soidal, about 3 mm. long.

Honshu (Nagato Prov.), Shi­koku, Kyushu. Ryukyus, Formosa, and China.