Japan Flora: Rusty-tomentose, erect, aromatic shrub, 30-50 cm. high; leaves coriaceous, lancedate, 3-5 cm. long, 5-12 mm. wide, obtuse to acute, some­times mucronate, deep green, entire, with yellow sessile glands especially while young, usually glaucous and white-papillose beneath, recurved on margin, the petioles 1-5 mm. long; corymbs densely many-flowered, terminal and sessile, densely pubcruient, often glandular-dotted, the pedicels 1-3 cm. long, the bracts ovate, acute, caducous; flowers white, 8-10 mm. across; petals elliptic, glabrous; capsules oblong, 5-vaIvcd, ob­tuse at both ends, 4-5 mm. long, glandular-dotted, nodding; styles nearly as long as to slightly shorter than the capsules. June-July. Wet boggy slopes and high moors;

Hokkaido, Honshu (n. distr.); gregarious.  Sakhalin, s. Kuriles, Ko­rea, and e. Siberia.