Shrubs or small trees 2-4(-7) m, evergreen. Branchlets terete, densely puberulent. Petiole 2-8 mm, glabrous or puberulent above; leaf blade lanceolate, elliptic or often narrowly so, to slightly oblanceolate, 3-9 × 1-3.5(-4) cm, leathery, glabrous, base cuneate to obtuse, apex long acuminate, sometimes acute; primary veins 3-6 on each side of midrib, obscure adaxially, slightly raised abaxially. Panicles terminal, 2-7 × 1.5-4 cm; rachis angular in fruit, pubescent. Pedicel 0-3 mm. Calyx ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous. Corolla 5-6 mm; tube 2-3 × as long as lobes. Stamens approaching to tips of corolla lobes; anthers 2-3 mm. Fruit black, ellipsoid, 7-10 × 5-7 mm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Aug-Dec.

* Woods or thickets in montane regions, valleys; 300-2600 m. Guizhou, W Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan