Japan Flora: Evergreen or partially deciduous erect shrub, the branches, petioles, pedicels, and ovary strigose; leaves rather thick, in 3*s (rarely 2's), terminal on the branches, elliptic, oblong, obovate, or sometimes ovate, deep green and lustrous on upper side, acute at both ends, long appressed-pubescent on upper side while young, the hairs somewhat persistent beneath, the petioles 5-10 nun. long; flowers 2 or 3, rose-colored, terminal, in umbels, the pedicels 1-2 cm. long; calyx small, obsolctely 5-lobed; corolla 5-Iobed, infundibuliform, 3.5-4 cm. across, glabrous, spotted inside at tip; stamens 10, glabrous; styles glabrous, exserted, about 2.5 cm. long; capsules ovoid-oblong, oblique, 10-12 mm. long. Thickets and woods in hills and mountains;

Kyushu (s. distr.). Ryukyus and Formosa.