Japan flora: Evergreen much branched shrub, tiie young branchlets dark brown-pubescent; leaves nearly opposite, thick, coriace이is, oblanceolate, 1.5-3 cm. long, 3-7 mm. wide, obtuse to rounded at apex, narrowed at base, nearly nerveless, dark brown pubescent beneath while very young, glabrous above, the petiole about 1 mm. long; inflorescence cymose, umbelliform, 1- to 4-flowered, short-pedunculate, the pedicels nearly as long as the ovary; flowers about 15 mm. long, deep red, the perianthtube slender, glabrous, the lobes 4, reflexed, about 4 mm. long, brown-yellow; fruit globose, red, about 5 mm. across. Aug. Parasitic on Pinus and Abies in mountains;

Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu.