Shrubs 1-2 (-5) m tall. Leaves thin chartaceous, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long, 1-3.5 cm broad, acuminate, cuneate at base, margins entire, crenate or serrulate, gray-white or fulvous-tomentose beneath, costa and veins instinct above, raised beneath, veins 8-10 per side, arcuate-ascending, anastomosing near margins, reticulations indistinct; petioles 0-5 mm long; stipules narrow. Inflorescences of terminal and axillary slender drooping paniculate spikes, 8-14 cm long, densely fulvous or gray-tomentose; calyx campanulate, 3-4 mm long, lobes triangular-oblong; corolla tubular, straight, to 1 cm long, white, pubescent or glabrescent without, lobes short; stamens inserted above middle of tube. Capsules ellipsoid, 7-8 mm long.
TAIPEI: Neihu, Peng 6450; Tanshui, Faurie 405. TAOYUAN: Fuhsing, Wu 1956. HSINCHU: Hengshan, Peng 12267. MIAOLI: Tungshiishuishan, Chen & Wu s. n. 1997; Kao & Kuo 480*. TAICHUNG: near Kukuan, Shen 374. NANTOU: Tzuchung, Peng 11417; Lushan, Peng 6177. CHIAYI: Fanlu, Wang 789; Alishan, Liu 679. KAOHSIUNG: Taoyuan, Liu 410; Maolin, Lu 1825. PINGTUNG: Wutai, Lin 397; Taiwu, Yang 6475. TAITUNG: Yenping, Tsou 403; Tungho, Chen 459. HUALIEN: Taroko Natl. Park, Peng 17025.
India, Malaysia and China. Taiwan, on mountain slopes at low elevations (600-1,400 m), common.
