Japan Flora: Evergreen glabrous tree with terete, red-brown branches; leaves with petioles 3-5 cm. long, the leaflets 3 or sometimes 1 or 2, thick-coriaceous, deep green, abruptly acuminate with an obtuse tip, appressed serrate, oblong or narrowly so, 7-12 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. wide, the midrib raised beneath, the lateral leaflets slightly smaller, on petiolules 5-10 mm. long, the terminal leaflets on petiolules the styles 3, often connate, the ovules ascending, anatropous; eeds angular, flat. More than JO species, in e. Asia, Malaysia, 1-3 cm. long; inflorescence pedunculate, terminal on young branchlets, 10-20 cm. long, many-flowered, puberulous; flowers pale green, about 5 mm. across; sepals elliptic; petals obovate, white, about 3.5 mm. long, slightly longer than the sepals; fruit fleshy, subglobose, 7-10 mm. across, becoming orange-red when mature; seeds few, grayish brown, with small elevated spots, 5-6 mm. long. May-June. 

Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus and Formosa.