Japan Flora: Glabrous evergreen shrub with elongate, often declined branches; leaves thick, lustrous, deep green, narrowly ovate to broadly lanceolate, 5-8 cm. long, 15-3 cm. wide, caudate, shallowly toothed, the petioles 5-8 mm. long; inflorescence racemose, terminal and axillary, nodding or drooping, 3-5 cm. long; flowers bracteate and bracteolate, the pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, about 25 mm. long, subacute, ciliolate; corolla white, 1.5- 2 cm. long; filaments pilose; capsules erect, 7-8 mm. in diameter, the pedicels curved upward in fruit; styles 1-1.5 cm. long. July-Aug. Shaded wet rocky cliffs in mountains;

Honshu (Kanto, Tokaido, and Kinki Distr.).