Japan Flora: Rather fleshy perennial herb; stems simple, terete, stout, 3-20 cm. long, erect, 3-8 mm. in diameter, fleshy, leafy toward the summit, with scarious scalelike leaves below; leaves long- petiolate, ovate-orbicular, 4-10 cm. long, 3-7 cm. wide, shal­lowly 7- to 9-lobed> irregularly toothed, rather fleshy，lustrous above, glabrous, glandular-hairy on the margins, petioles 2-10 cm. long; scapes 5-8 cm. long; panicle corymbose, the pedicels short glandular-puberulent; calyx-lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, about 4 mm. long; petals lanceolate, acute, white, of two lengths, the longest to 20 mm. long; stamens about 5 mm. long. Oct. On shaded rocks in mountains.

Honshu (Ise and Yamato Prov.), Shikoku, Kyushu; rare.

f. lacini­ata (Nakai) Ohwi. A rare phase with deeply lobed leaves.