Japan Flora: Shrub with slender grayish brown branches with grayish hairs; leaves chartaceous, broadly oblanceolate to obovate, 5-8 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide, gla­brous or nearly so, green above, paler or becoming purplish brown when dry, with spreading to ascending curved whitish hairs especially on nerves beneath, the nerves and veinlets slightly raised beneath, the petioles 1-2 mm. long, pubescent; flowers in few-flowered axillary fascicles, small, the pedicels to 5 mm. long; sepals 6, about 1.5 mm. long, narrowly cuneate- obovate, rounded; stigmas about 6, connate; ovary whitc-pubes- cent.

Kyushu (Hizen Prov.); rare. Formosa and China to Philippines.