Japan Flora: Resembling the preceding but larger; stems terete, prostrate, branched, elongate, brownish green, nearly glabrous; leaves alternate, 2-seriate, subovate or ob-liquely ovate in smaller ones, elongate above in the larger ones, 2-5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, deep green, sometimes ap- pressed pilose above, pale green and nearly glabrous beneath, the petioles very short, 1-3 mm. long; staminate cymes 1-1.5 cm. across, the peduncles papillose-puberulous; pistillate glomerules small, subglobose; achenes about 0.8 mm. long, minutely raised punctate. June-July. Woods;

Honshu (Kinki Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu.