Japan Flora: Deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with grayish, ramulose branches, densely short gray-pubescent, the short spurs often reduced to spines; leaves coriaceous, lustrous, broadly ovate, 2-3 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, obtuse with a mucro at apex, rounded at base, soon glabrous on upper side, with deciduous grayish lanate hairs beneath, appressed-serrulate, the veinlets rather prominent on both sides, the petioles 4 mm. long, short-pubescent; spikes in terminal panicles and on upper part of the branchlets, densely pubescent; flowers sessile, about 3.5 mm. across, in few-flowered fascicles, yellow­ish; calyx-lobes deltoid, pubescent outside; drupe purplish black, subglobose, about 5 mm. across.   Oct.

Shikoku, Kyu­shu (Fukuejima). Ryukyus, Formosa, China, and India.