Japan Flora: Shrub with slender elongate branches often puberulent while young; leaves ovate, rarely ovate- lanceolate, 3:7 cm. long, acuminate, rounded or sometimes cuneate at base, doubly acute-toothcd, glabrous on both sides or short-pubescent on nerves beneath, the stipules longer than the petioles, laciniate, minutely toothed, the petioles 2-3 mm. long; flowers appearing with the leaves, 2 or 3, small, white or pale pink, single, the pedicels 5-10 mm. long; drupes sub- globose. Apr.

Cultivated shrub of Chinese origin.