Japan Flora: Slightly scandent evergreen shrub with white and pale brown scales while young; leaves coriaceous, orbicular-ovate to broadly elliptic- ovate, sometimes orbicular, 5-7 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, acute to abruptly acuminate with an obtuse tip or rounded at both ends, loosely white-scaly on upper surface while young, densely white-scaly beneath, the petioles 1-2.5 cm. long; flowers few in axils, the pedicels 5-8 (-10) mm. long, densely white-scaly, sometimes also with reddish brown scales; calyx campanulate, the tube abruptly narrowed at base, 4-5 mm. long, the lobes broadly ovate, slightly shorter than the tube; fruit oblong, white-scaly, 1.5-2 cm. long. Oct.-Nov. Thickets near sea shores；

Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. s. Korea and Ryukyus.