Japan Flora: Stems 60-80 cm. long, recurved-hairy on the angles; leaves broadly lanceolate or narrowly ovate-oblong, 5-10 cm. long, 1-3.5 cm. wide, long-acuminate, cuneate and long decurrent at base, acutely-toothed, thinly pilose on both surfaces especially on nerves beneath, petiolate; racemes loose, terminal and axillary, 10-25 cm. long, the bracts ovate to ovate-cordate, the pedicels rather long; calyx spreading-puberulent and glandular-dotted, about 4 mm. long in fruit, the teeth narrowly deltoid, acute; corolla blue-purple, 8-10 mm. long, the tube rather broad, gibbous, about twice as long as the calyx and slighdy longer than the lower lip; nutlets orbicular, 1.2 mm. long, slightly flattened, obsoletely reticulate, smooth. Sept-Oct. Moun­tains;

Honshu (Fuji and Hakone regions).