Japan Flora: Erect shrub 1-3 m. high, the branches dark brown, the branchlets gray-brown, short curved-puberulent and stipitate-glandular while young, terete, rather slender; leaves elliptic, oblong or ovate, 3-8 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, acute to short-acuminate, acute or rarely rounded at base, serrulate with glandular- tipped teeth, puberulent on midrib and often scattered coarse hairy on upper side, pale green and coarsely pilose on midrib beneath, with 2 sessile glands on the margin near base, the petioles 1-2.5 mm. long, puberulent; racemes 3-6 cm. long, terminal on young new shoots, rather densely many-flowered, curved-puberulent and stipitate glandular, the bracts lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 4-7 mm. long, acuminate, somewhat persistent in fruit, the pedicels 1-3 mm. long; calyx-teeth de- pressed-deltoid; corolla campanulate, 4-5 mm. long, pale yellow-brown and reddish, glabrous, 5-toothed; berries black, bloomy, globose, 6-7 mm. in diameter, the calyx-teeth persistent. May-June. Thickets and woods at low elevations in the mountains;

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; rather common. s. Korea and China.

Japan Flora: Large erect shrub, the branches dark brown or gray brown, terete, short-puberulent while young; leaves elliptic, obovate-elliptic, or broadly ovate, 3-5 (-8) cm. long, 2-3 (-4.5) cm. wide, acute to subobtuse, acute or rarely subrounded at base, entire, puberulent on midrib on upper side, spreading coarse-hairy beneath, the petioles 1-3 mm. long; racemes elongate, 3-7 cm. long, terminal on new shoots, rather densely many-flowered, the bracts narrowly ovate to lanceolate, the pedicels 3-4 mm. long, puberulent; berries globose, black, bloomy, 5-7 mm. in diameter. Honshu (Tango, Suwo, and Nagato Prov.), Kyushu.