Japan Flora: Deciduous shrub with densely white-scaly branchlets becoming grayish with age; leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate, sometimes nar¬rowly oblong or broadly oblanceolate, 4-8 cm. long, 1-2 (-2.5) cm. wide, subobtuse to acute with an obtuse tip, acute to gradually so at base, thinly white-scaly on upper surface while young, densely and persistently so beneath, the petioles 5-10 mm. long, white-scaly; flowers 1-7, fasciculate in axils, densely white-scaly, the pedicels 3-6(-8) mm. long at anthesis to 12 mm. long in fruit; calyx-tubc slender, gradually narrowed at base, 5-7 mm. long, the lobes narrowly ovate, about one-half to two-thirds as long as the tube, acute to acuminate; fruit subglobose to broadly ellipsoidal, 6-8 mm. long. May. Thickets and thin woods in lowlands and hills;

Hokkaido (w. distr.), Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Common and variable.