Japan flora: Small parasitic subshrub 5-12 cm. high, on evergreen trees and shrubs, glabrous, the branches green, much branched, many-jointed, the internodes flattened; leaves minute, mucrolike; flowers minute, sessile, less than 1 mm. across, few together at die joints, the perianth deeply 3-Iobed; fruit small, about 2 mm. across, broadly ellipsoidal, orange-yellow; seeds solitary, dehiscing by sudden explosion. Apr.-Aug. Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Formosa, China, India, Malaysia, and Australia.