Japan Flora: Large shrub, the branches usually gray-brown, the branch lets terete, with loose whitish curved hairs while young; leaves elliptic, ovate-elliptic, or obovate, 4-8 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, acuminate to acute, acute at base, entire, deep green and loosely puberulent on midrib on upper side, glabrous or the midrib scattered coarse-hairy beneadi with 2 sessile glands on margin near base, the petioles 2-4 mm. long, usually glabrous; racemes 5-10 cm. long, rather densely many-flowered, glabrous or scattered white-pilose, the pedicels 4-8 mm. long, the bracts lanceolate to obovate, 5-10 mm. long; corolla tubular-campanulate, 4-5 mm. long; berries globose, bloomy, 5-6 mm. in diameter. Honshu (Mikawa and Kii Prov.), reported to occur in Kyushu (Satsuma).