Japan Flora: Brown-sometimes glandular-hairy shrub about 1 m. high; vernal leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, 3-5 cm. long, 8-15 mm. wide, acute at both ends, the summer leaves usually persistent over winter, smaller, oblanceolate, usually subobtuse; flowers 1-3, rose-purple, terminal, in umbels, the pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long; calyx-lobes 5, green, lanceolate, 1-2 cm. long, gradually acute, short glandular-ciliate; corolla infundibuliform, 5-lobed; stamens 10, the filaments granular-pilose; styles glabrous; capsules ovoid, about 8 nun. in diameter, strigose. Apr .-May.

Honshu (Chugoka Distr.), Shikoku, Kyushu (n. distr.).