Japan Flora: Small deciduous tree or large shrub with smooth yellow-brown bark and terete branches; leaves chartaceous, broadly ovate, ovate- elliptic, or narrowly ovate-oblong, 6-10 cm. long, 2-6 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, rounded to subcordate at base, white- pilose beneath especially near base; racemes 3-6 cm. long, fewleaved toward the base, from axillary buds of the last year’s shoots, the bracts and bracteoles caducous, the pedicels short; calyx-lobes ovate, acute; corolla white, tubular-urceolate, 8-10 mm. long, loosely puberulent; ovary sparsely pilose; capsules 3- 4 mm. in diameter, glabrous. pine. Hills and low elevations in the mountains;

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. Formosa and China.