Japan Flora: Deciduous shrub; branchlets gray-brown, densely fulvous- scaly, with fulvous-stellate hairs while young; leaves mem¬branous, broadly lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 4-8 cm. long, 3.5 cm. wide, caudate-acuminate to acute with an obtuse tip, obtuse, rounded to subacute at base, stellate-pilose on up¬per side, densely white-scaly and loosely stellate-pilose beneath, the petioles 3-5 mm. long; flowers solitary, with pale yellow scales and stellate hairs; calyx-tube rather broad, abruptly con¬stricted above the ovary, about 7 mm. long, the lobes rounded- ovate, 4-5 mm. long, acute; fruit broadly ellipsoidal, small, 6-7 mm. long, the pedicels 2.5-4 cm. long, thinly stellate- pilose at first, later only with scales. May.

Honshu (Musashi, Kai and to Suruga Prov.); rare.

Japan Flora: Deciduous shrub with densely brown-scaly young branchlets; leaves chartaceous to somewhat membranous, elliptic, ovate to ob¬long, 3-8.5 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide, rather abruptly acumi¬nate with an obtuse tip (especially at flowering time), acute to rounded at base, loosely white-scaly or glabrous on upper side, densely white- and red-brown scaly beneath, the petioles 5-8 mm. long; flowers 1-3, usually solitary, axillary, the pedicels about 1 cm. long at anthesis, 1-3 cm. long in fruit, thickened in upper part, whitish scaly; calyx-tube abruptly constricted above the ovary，the lobes large, broadly ovate, 3-4 mm. long, acute or abruptly so; fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, about 1 cm. long. May-July. Mountains;

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu.

Japan Flora: Deciduous shrub, the branchlets densely red-brown scaly and loosely stellate-pilose while young; leaves membran이is, ob¬long, obovate, oblanceolate or sometimes ovate-elliptic, 4-8 cm. long，1-4 cm. wide, obtuse to abruptly acuminate with an obtuse tip, with stellate hairs on upper side while young, densely white-scaly and with fulv이is-stelhte hairs especially on nerves near base beneath, the petioles 3-5 mm. long; flow¬ers 1 to 3 in axils, the pedicels 2.5-3 cm. long in fruit, with white and brown scales and pale stellate pubescence; calyx¬tube 6-8 mm. long, abruptly constricted above the ovary, with white-stellate hairs, the lobes broadly ovate, 3-4 mm. long; fruit brown-scaly, obovoid, 7-8 mm. long, abruptly narrowed to a stipelike base. Apr.-May.

Honshu (Tokai and Kinki Distr.), Shikoku.

Japan Flora: Much-branched, deciduous shrub with slender branches, the branchlets gray-brown, with dense red-brown stellate scales; leaves membranous, ovate-elliptic to ovate-oblong, 4-6 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, caudate-acuminate, rather obtuse at the tip, obtuse to acute at base, conspicuously stellate-hairy on both sides, loosely brown-scaly beneath, the petioles 2-4 mm. long, brown-scaly and stellate-pilose; flowers solitary; calyx-tube slender, 4-5 mm. long, constricted above the ovary, the lobes ovate, acute, slightly shorter than the tube; fruit oblong-fusi¬form, about 12 mm. long, the pedicels 2.5-4 cm. long, at first fulvous-pilose and -scaly, later only scaly. May.

Honshu (Kawachi, Izumi, and Kii Prov.); rare.

Japan Flora: Large deciduous shrub; branches dark brown, the young branchlets densely stellate-pilose; leaves membranous, obovate- elliptic, oblong, to ovate-elliptic, 5-12 cm. long, 3-6 cm. wide, acute to short-acuminate with an obtuse tip, rounded to ob¬tuse or broadly cuneate at base, with brown scales while young, later densely stellate-hairy on both surfaces, especially so beneath, the petioles 5-8 mm. long, with fulvous-stellate hairs; flowers 1 to 3, fasciculate in axils; calyx-tube slender, 8-10 mm. long, slightly narrowed at base, white stellate-pilose, the lobes broadly ovate, acute, about half as long as the tube; fruit obovoid-oblong, about 1 cm. long, the pedicels erect, straight, about 1 cm. long, densely fulvous-stellate hairy.May.

Honshu (Chugoku Distr.).

Japan Flora: Dwarf grayish strigose perennial with a thick per­pendicular caudex; stems 10-20 cm. long, tufted, ascending from a decumbent base; radical leaves rosulate, closely imbri­cate, rather many, linear-lanceolate, 3-6 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, obtuse or subacute, sessile; cauline leaves about 10, lanceolate, 1-2.5(-3.5) cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide; racemes few, terminal, several-flowered, brae tea te in the lower flowers, the bracts broadly linear, 3-7 mm. long, the pedicels erect, 7-12 mm. long; calyx-segments narrowly oblong; corolla blue, about 8 mm. across, the tube shorter than the calyx; nutlets ascending, about 1.5 mm. long, puberulent on the back, witli a series of marginal glochidiate  bristles. July-Aug. Gravelly or sandy alpine slopes.

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. distr.); rare. Sakhalin.