Japan Flora: Branchlets glabrate, yellowish stellate-hairy while young; leaves oblong to narrowly obovate, 3-7 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, acute to obtuse, sometimes undulate-toothed on the upper margin, stellate-pubescent while young; spikes axillary, 2-valvcd, the valves bifid; seeds oblong-cylindric, shining. shorter than the leaves, stellate-pubescent; anthers red; cap¬sules broadly ovoid, shallowly bifid, about 10 mm. long, yellow-brown tomentose. Mar.-May.

Honshu (s. Kanto Di str. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; occasionally planted. Ryukyus. A phase with variegated leaves is known.