Japan Flora: Small shrub, minutely brown granular-puberulent on young stems and inflorescence; stems simple, erect, 20-40 cm. long, terete; leaves alternate, lanceo­late to broadly so, 8-18 cm. long, 1.5-3.5 cm. wide, gradually narrowed to an obtuse tip, acute at base, undulately toothed, with a resinous marginal gland in sinus, vivid green, slighdy paler beneath, smooth, glabrous, the petioles 8-10 mm. long; inflorescence about 10-flowered, umbellate on ends of special articulate flowering pedunclelike branches 4-7 cm. long, these usually bearing a few leaves or leaflike bracts, the pedi­cels about 10 mm. long; flowers white, 7-8 mm. across; calyx­lobes narrowly oblong, obtuse, not ciliate, recurved above; fruit globose, red, 6-7 mm. across；July. Woods in hills and low mountains.

Honshu (Awa Prov. and westw.), Shi­koku, Kyushu. Taiwan, Ryukyus, and China