Japan Flora: Glabrous evergreen tree with yellow-brown branches; buds many-scaled; leaves subcoria- ceous, ovate or broadly so or elliptic, 6-10 cm. long, 3-6 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, lustrous above, often glaucescent beneath, 3-nerved or subpenninerved, with 2 impressed glands in the  lower nerve axils beneath, the petioles 15-25 mm. long; inflorescence axillary, paniculate, glabrous, pedunculate, shorter than the leaves, the bracts caducous, membranous, linear, soft-pubescent, the perianth-segments about 1.5 mm. long, yellow-green, soft-pubescent inside, elliptic; fruit globose, 7-8 mm. across, black.-May-June. Warmer parts;

Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; widely planted. -Ryukyus, Formosa, and China.