Japan Flora: Much-branched, deciduous shrub with slender branches, the branchlets gray-brown, with dense red-brown stellate scales; leaves membranous, ovate-elliptic to ovate-oblong, 4-6 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, caudate-acuminate, rather obtuse at the tip, obtuse to acute at base, conspicuously stellate-hairy on both sides, loosely brown-scaly beneath, the petioles 2-4 mm. long, brown-scaly and stellate-pilose; flowers solitary; calyx-tube slender, 4-5 mm. long, constricted above the ovary, the lobes ovate, acute, slightly shorter than the tube; fruit oblong-fusi¬form, about 12 mm. long, the pedicels 2.5-4 cm. long, at first fulvous-pilose and -scaly, later only scaly. May.

Honshu (Kawachi, Izumi, and Kii Prov.); rare.