Japan Flora: Densely leafy shrub, 1-5 m. high, with thick, terete branches; leaves fleshy, narrowly obovate to obovate-spathulate, 10-20 cm. long, 3-6(-9) cm. wide, rounded to obtuse or retuse, ap­pressed whitish silky-hairy, the lateral nerves strongly arcuate, ascending; inflorescence terminal, rather large, pedunculate, branched in upper part, silvery gray hairy, the branches scorpioid, many flowered; flowers small, white, sessile; calyx­segments as long as the corolla-tube; corolla-tube 1.5-2 mm. long, the limb about 4 mm. across, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes elliptic, slightly appressed-pilose on back near base; anthers semi-exserted; fruit globose, about 4 mm. across, glabrous. Aug.-Nov. Seashores;

Kyushu (Tanegashima); very rare. Ryukyus, Formosa, se. Asia to Australia, and Madagascar.