Japan Flora: Large, gla­brous or nearly glabrous, deciduous, dioecious shrub; leaves narrowly oblong or often broadly obovate in the smaller ones, 5-10 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, acuminate with an obtuse dp or sometimes rounded at apex, cuneate at base in smaller ones, ob­tusely serrulate, the lateral nerves 4- or 5-pairs, suberect, form­ing an acute angle with the midrib, incurved at tip, the petioles 1-2 cm. long; flowers small, few in the lower axils of the branchlets, glabrous, yellowish green, 4-5 mm. across, the pedi- cek about 1 cm. long; calyx-lobes elongate-deltoid, acute; fruit obovate-globose, 6-8 mm. across, black, usually with 2 stones. May.

Honshu (centr. and n. distr.).  Dahuria, n. China, Manchuria, and Korea.