Japan Flora: Shrub 30-60 cm. high; stems erect, grayish brown, simple except for a few spreading special flowering and articulating branches in upper part; leaves alternate, thick, oblong, 7-12 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, green on upper side, redcHsh brown when dry, acute to short-acuminate with an obtuse tip, gradually nar­rowed and acuminate at base, undulately toothed with an albuminous gland between the teetli, with pellucid dots and dark brown inner glands, the lateral nerves weak and not prominent, the petioles 5-10 mm. long; inflorescence terminal on the special lateral flowering branches, sessile, or the branches leafless and becoming pedunclelike, sometimes corymbosely branched, the pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long; calyx-seg­ments ovate, subacute or subobtuse, not ciliate, spreading; corolla about 8 mm. across, white; fruit globose, red, about 6 mm. across.  July. Woods in low mountains.

Honshu (s. Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus, Taiwan, Korea, China to India.