Sageretia henryi Drumm. & Sprague

The fruit is used medicinally for heart and stomach diseases.

Shrubs scandent, rarely small trees, ca. 2.5 m tall, unarmed or spinose; branchlets red-brown, glabrous; old branches gray-black. Leaves alternate or subopposite; stipules subulate, 1-1.5 mm; petiole 5-13 mm, glabrous; leaf blade brownish on both sides when dry, oblong, narrowly elliptic, or ovate-elliptic, 5-12 × 2.5-5 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins 5 or 6(or 7) pairs, prominent abaxially, slightly impressed adaxially, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin minutely serrulate, apex caudate-acuminate, rarely acute. Flowers white or yellow, solitary or few fascicled in axillary or terminal lax racemes; rachis to 15 cm, glabrous. Pedicels 1-3 mm. Calyx tube shallowly cup-shaped; lobes triangular, adaxially distinctly keeled and with minute apical beak, apex acute. Petals spatulate, slightly shorter than stamens, apex emarginate. Ovary 3-loculed, with 1 ovule per locule. Drupe purple-red at maturity, elliptic or obovoid-globose, 5-6 mm, 4-5 mm in diam., 2- or 3-loculed; fruiting pedicel 1-4 mm. Seeds 2, flat, both ends emarginate. Fl. Jul-Nov, fr. Mar-Jun of following year.

Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, S Zhejiang.

● Dense forests, mountain thickets; 400-2500 m.

Berchemia cavaleriei H. Léveillé; Sageretia cavaleriei (H. Léveillé) C. K. Schneider.

Sageretia henryi is a woody shrub reaching a height of 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in), sometimes although growing to the size of a small tree. It has green, ovate leaves and yellow or white flowers. The shrub is found in mountain thickets and dense forests of China in the Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan S Zhejiang.