Japan Flora: Large branched shrub, the branches grayish brown, the branchlets rather slen­der, terete, brown-scurfy while young, purplish brown when dried; leaves alternate, rather thin, elliptic or oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 6-10 cm. long, 2-35 cm. wide, long-acumi­nate to abruptly acute with an acute to obtuse tip, acuminate at base, entire, dark brown when dried, slightly purplish be­neath, brown-scurfy when very young, with obscure glands within, the midrib slender, raised beneath, impressed on the upper side, the lateral nerves many, parallel, obliquely spread- ing, not prominent; inflorescence axillary, umbellate, some­times branched, on slender peduncles 3-4 cm. long; calyx­segments deltoid or narrowly so, short, rather acute; corolla about 6 mm. across; fruit obtusely 5-angled or globose or depressed-globose, with obsolete longitudinal striations when dried, 4-6 mm. across.

Kyushu (Yakushima and Tanegashima). Ryukyus, Formosa, s. China, and Indochina.