Japan Flora: Rhizomes usually short, creeping; stems leafy, erect, 50-100 cm. long, often sparingly hirsute below, ascending and branched below the middle, rather stout; leaves thinly membranous, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 6-12 cm. long, 3-6 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, glabrous, the margin usually papillate, rounded-cordate and clasping at base, glaucous be-neath; peduncles axillary, adnate on the stem to the insertion of the next leaf, the free portion 2-4 cm. long, pendulous on upper half, geniculate at the middle; flowers solitary on the peduncles, greenish white, broadly campanulate, pendulous, the tepals lanceolate, recurved on upper half, 8-10 mm. long; anthers lanceolate, acuminate, about 4 mm. long, smooth, gla-brous, longer than the filaments, the style 4~5 mm. long; fruit red, about 1 cm. long, ovoid-globose. June-Aug. Damp coniferous woods in mountains;

Hokkaido, Honshu (n. and centr. distr.); rather rare. China, Sakhalin, Kuriles, Kamchatka, and Amur.