Japan Flora: Stems 70-100 cm. long, recurved-puberulent on the angles; leaves narrowly ovate, 7-12 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. wide, acuminate, cuneate at the base, toothed, puberulent on nerves beneath, petiolate; racemes 10-20 cm. long, one-sided, the pedicels rather long, the cymes sessile or short-pedunculate; calyx puberulent, about 6 mm. long in fruit, the teeth deltoid-ovate, short, very short-mucronatc; corolla 15-20 mm. long, blue-purple, the tube rather broad, gibbous, 4-6 times as long as the limb; nutlets orbicular, about 2 mm. across, slightly flattened, smooth. Aug .-Oct. Mountains.
Honshu (w. Tokaidd Di str. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu.