Japan Flora: Glabrous deciduous shrub with 4-angled, gray-brown branches, the pith lamellate; leaves rather thick, oblong to lanceolate, rarely obovate-oblong, 6-10 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, broadest at or above the middle, acute, cuneate at base, short-toothed on the upper half, deep green, pale green beneath, the petioles 7-10 mm. long; pedicels 5-10 mm. long, as long as to slightly longer than the bud-scales; calyx-lobes elliptic, ciliate, 2.5-3 mm. long, erect, half as long as the corolla-tube; corolla 2-2.5 cm. across, the lobes narrowly oblong, about 15 mm. long, about 7 mm. wide, slightly re­curved on margin; fruit broadly ovoid, about 1.5 cm. long, nearly rounded at base. Apr.

Chinese shrub rarely culti­vated in our area.