Japan Flora: Slightly scandent shrub elongate and much-branched, glabrous, green, becoming yellowish brown with age; leaves membranous, ovate or elliptic, 2.5-4 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, very obtuse at both ends or rounded at base, entire, gla­brous and deep green on upper side, often yellowish and nearly glabrous except for yellowish brown thin pubescence on the nerves and with axillary tufts of hairs beneath, the petioles 5-10 mm. long, sparsely short-pubescent near point of attach* ment; racemes 1-2.5 cm. long, about 10-flowered, glabrous, the pedicels 2-3 mm. long; flowers about 3 mm. across; calyx­lobes deltoid, rather obtuse; fruit narrowly oblong, 7-8 mm. long.  Aug. Mountains.

Honshu (Kanto Distr., Kai and s. Shinano Prov.); rare.