Japan Flora: Low subshrub; stems 5-12 cm. long, rather slender, erect, simple or sparsely branched, glabrous; leaves verticillate, rather many, thick-coriaceous, cuneate-oblanceolate, 3-5 cm. long, 6-10 mm. wide, obtuse to subacute, lustrous, glabrous, few-toothed above the middle, the nerves impressed above, the petioles 3-6 mm. long; peduncles 5-10 cm. long, papillose, 3- to 9-flowered, the pedicels erect, 1.5-25 cm. long, the bracts broadly linear, 3-4 mm. long; flowers white, sometimes roseate, about 8 mm. across, not fully open; calyx-segments ovate-orbicular, about 2 mm. long, irregularly toothed; corolla-lobes suborbicular; capsules depressed globose, about 6 mm. across; stigma nearly sessile. July. Dry woods especially near the sea;

Hokkaido, Honshu (Hitachi Prov. and northw.); rare. Sakhalin to Europe, and N. America.