Japan Flora: Deciduous shrub with pinnately branched yellow-brown hairs; branches thick, terete, villous; leaves chartaceous, narrowly oblong, broadly lanceolate, or ovate-oblong, 15-30 cm. long, 4-8 cm. wide, long-acuminate, gradually narrowed at base, serrulate, with gray-yellow stellate and pinnately branched hairs beneath, obsoletely glandular- dotted, the lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, the petioles 2-3.5 cm. long; cymes densely many-flowered, short-pedunculate; calyx 5-parted, the lobes broadly linear; corolla about 1.5 mm. long; anthers oblong, about 0.5 mm. long; fruit about 2 mm. across, enclosed by the calyx, white. Aug.

Honshu (s. Kinki Distr.), Shikoku, Kyushu (s. distr.). Formosa, China, and Indochina.