Japan Flora: Branches rather thick, creeping, glabrous; leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic, 5- 10 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, rounded to obtuse, mucronate, obtuse at base, fleshy, lustrous, pilose beneath, petiolate; in­florescence umbellate, densely flowered, the peduncles axillary, thick, short; flowers 12-15 mm. across, pale rose, on rather slender elongate pedicels; corolla-lobes deltoid-ovate, obtuse, densely short-papillose, hairy on inside; corona-lobes short, narrowly deltoid, horizontally spreading, shining; follicles linear, 10-14 cm. long, 6-7 mm. across; seeds oblanceolate, 4-5mm. long, slightly contracted at apex, comose. June-Oct. 

Kyushu. Ryukyus, Formosa, and tropical Asia.