Japan Flora: Shrub with slender creeping stems sparingly armed with short slender slightly flattened prickles or often unarmed, densely short- pubescent; leaves chartaceous, deep green, nearly orbicular, 5-10 cm. long and as wide, cordate, rounded to subacute at apex, with short-awned small teeth, obsoletely 3- to 5-lobulate with rounded depressed lobules or often unlobed, short-pubes­cent on the nerves above, spreading-pilose beneath, the petiole 3-10 cm. long, densely pubescent; inflorescence axillary, densely few-flowered, often aggregated in a terminal panicle, the flow­ers short-pedicelled; calyx with long yellowish hairs, 8-10 mm. long; petals 7-8 mm. long; fruit red, the stones about 2.5 mm. long, pitted. Aug.-Nov. Woods in low mountains.

Hon­shu (Awa and Izu Prov. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. s. Korea, Formosa, and China.