Japan Flora: Much-branched pilose pubescent shrub; leaves flat, narrowly elliptic, 2.5-5 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, acute at both ends, membranous, coarsely pilose with ascending hairs on upper side and on midrib beneath, green above, paler beneath; flow­ers 3-6, umbellate, yellowish, 5-7 mm. long, the pedicels 1.5-3 cm. long, obliquely spreading, slightly nodding, becoming erect in fruit, puberulous and glandular-pilose; calyx 2-3 mm. across, 5-parted, glandular<ciliate; corolla obliquely urceolate, puber- ulent inside at tip and on lobes; stamens 5, glabrous, the anthers broadly lanceolate, about 1.5 mm. long; ovary puberu- lent and glandular-pilose; style about 4 mm. long; capsules ovoid-globose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, 5-valved. May-June.  Mountains

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Sa­khalin and s. Kuriles.