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The first significant collections were made by the Japanese, especially Professors Ryozo Kanehira and Takahide Hosokawa, during the 1930s. They published informal accounts with some listing of collections (Kanehira, 1934; Hosokawa, 1934) and cited these plants in appropriate taxonomic treatments. These records from the literature, or the specimens if we have been able to see them, are listed under the species below.

1 40 c cymes axillary, slender, dichasial, 2-4 (or more) times ramified, usually pubescent, bracteate, bracts small; flowers white (or purple), calyx lobes narrowly oblong 1 -4(-5) mm long, blunt; corolla tube 1-1.5 cm long, lobes obovate, 5-8 mm long, style subequal with or exceeding tube, hooked, indusium hirsute, stigma somewhat flattened, slightly bilobed or emarginate; drupe oval or subglobose, white, or purplish on one side, flesh soft, tasteless, stone ellipsoid, ribbed, outer layer aerogenous or corky. This species is extremely variable. It exhibits great diversity in leaf size and shape (2-30 ± cm) (spatulate to obovate to orbicular), hairiness (glabrous to sericeous blades, slight to conspicuous white hair in axils); white to purple flowers, as well as great variations in habit and stature. 1135 (FU); top of hill N of Nimar, NNW of Colonia, 170 m, Fosberg 46540 (US, BISH, Fo);