Japan Flora: Gla­brous shrub about 2 m. high, with green branchlets; leaves ovate or elliptic, 3-10 cm. long, 2-6 cm. wide, acuminate, short awn-toothed, the petioles 2-4 cm. long; flowers pale green, 4-5 mm. wide, the staminate few, the pistillate 1~3 mm pedicels 3-4 mm. long; petals 4(3-5), ovate-deltoid; fruit black, globose, about 7 mm. across; stones 2-4, oblong, 6-7 mm. long, with raised reticulations on surface.    May. Woods and thickets in hills and low mountains.

Hokkaido (sw. distr.), Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. Ryukyus.