Japan Flora: Scandent much-branched slender perennial herb, rather densely yellowish short-crispate and soft pubescent on stems and lower leaf surfaces; leaves subcoriaceous, broadly ovate-elliptic, elliptic, or ovate, 4-7 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. wide, rounded to obtuse, rounded at base, glabrate and lustrous above, paler beneath, the petioles 5~12 mm. long; inflorescence pedunculate or sub- sessile, many-flowered, rather umbellike, slightly branched, nearly as long as the leaves, the pedicels slender, nearly gla­brous, 7-10 mm. long; calyx-segments small, ovate; corolla 6-7 mm. across, the lobes narrowly deltoid-ovate, glabrous; corona­lobes erect, ovate-deltoid, about half as long as the gynosteg- ium; follicles horizontally spreading, lanceolate, often loosely pubescent, sometimes glabrous, 5-6 cm. long, 8-10 mm. wide; seeds broadly ovate, narrowly winged, about 6 mm. long. Aug.

Honshu (Izu Prov.), Kyushu. Ryukyus.

Japan Flora: Scandent much-branched slender perennial herb, rather densely yellowish short-crispate and soft pubescent on stems and lower leaf surfaces; leaves subcoriaceous, broadly ovate-elliptic, elliptic, or ovate, 4-7 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. wide, rounded to obtuse, rounded at base, glabrate and lustrous above, paler beneath, the petioles 5~12 mm. long; inflorescence pedunculate or sub- sessile, many-flowered, rather umbellike, slightly branched, nearly as long as the leaves, the pedicels slender, nearly gla­brous, 7-10 mm. long; calyx-segments small, ovate; corolla 6-7 mm. across, the lobes narrowly deltoid-ovate, glabrous; corona­lobes erect, ovate-deltoid, about half as long as the gynosteg- ium; follicles horizontally spreading, lanceolate, often loosely pubescent, sometimes glabrous, 5-6 cm. long, 8-10 mm. wide; seeds broadly ovate, narrowly winged, about 6 mm. long. Aug.

Honshu (Izu Prov.), Kyushu. Ryukyus.