Japan Flora: Large deciduous shrub; branches dark brown, the young branchlets densely stellate-pilose; leaves membranous, obovate- elliptic, oblong, to ovate-elliptic, 5-12 cm. long, 3-6 cm. wide, acute to short-acuminate with an obtuse tip, rounded to ob¬tuse or broadly cuneate at base, with brown scales while young, later densely stellate-hairy on both surfaces, especially so beneath, the petioles 5-8 mm. long, with fulvous-stellate hairs; flowers 1 to 3, fasciculate in axils; calyx-tube slender, 8-10 mm. long, slightly narrowed at base, white stellate-pilose, the lobes broadly ovate, acute, about half as long as the tube; fruit obovoid-oblong, about 1 cm. long, the pedicels erect, straight, about 1 cm. long, densely fulvous-stellate hairy.May.

Honshu (Chugoku Distr.).