Japan Flora: Small tree with stellate pubescence; branches dark brown, slender; leaves obliquely ovate or obliquely oblong, 2-4 cm. long, 1-2 cm, wide, deep green above, whitish beneath with raised veinlets, the petioles 3-5 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate, 2-3 mm. long, obtuse; petals about 20 mm. long, about 2.5 mm. wide; anthers about 0.7 mm. long, the appendage of the connective nearly as long as the anther; capsules 6-7 mm. long. May.