Japan Flora: Erect shrub, 5-10 cm. high with sparsely branched erect branches 1-2 mm. thick, from subterranean creeping stems or stolons; leaves short-petiolate, spreading, ovate-oblong to oblong, 5-10 mm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, obtuse with a mucronate gland at apex, flat, entire, slightly recurved on margins, deep green and lustrous with die midrib impressed above, paler and glabrous beneath; flowers nodding, often in 3’s, the bracts persistent, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, 3- 4 mm. long, the bracteoles and calyx-segments slightly smaller and obtuse; corolla 4-5 mm. long; capsules subglobose, about 3.5 mm. across, minutely puberulent, slightly longer than the persistent style, depressed at apex. July. Dry al
pine slopes and rocky cliffs;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.); rather rare. Kuriles and Kamchatka.