Japan Flora: Deciduous much-branched shrub with grayish brown branches, often spiny in young individuals, the branchlets densely brownish puberulent; leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly ovate, elliptic, or ovate-orbicular, 4-6 cm. long inclusive of the densely soft-puberulous petioles, obtuse to rounded at both ends, obtusely serrulate, pale green beneath, soft-pubescent especially on nerves beneath when young, 3-nerved, the secondary nerves slender and ascending; cymes axillary, on the upper part of the branchlets, short-peduncled, densely brownish pubescent; flowers few, about 5 mm. across, pale green; calyx-lobes del­toid; petals broadly ovate, shorter than the sepals, less than 1 mm. long; fruit suborbicular, with a 3-lobed, dentate, broad wing at the margin of the broadly truncate apex, soft brown­ish puberulenc. Aug.-Sept. Near seashores;

Honshu (Tokaido Distr. and wesrvv.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus, For­mosa, and China.