Japan Flora: Shrub 2-4 m. high; leaves thick, broadly oblanceolate, 3-8 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, lustrous, deep green, serrulate, glabrous, the petiole short; inflorescence pendulous, densely many-flowered, minutely puberulent; flowers white, nodding, short-pedicellate; calyx-segments broadly lanceolate; corolla 6-8 mm. long; filaments short- pilose; capsules depressed-globose, erect, 5-6 mm. in diameter. Apr.-May. Sunny hills;

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; rather common.