Shrubs, climbing; young branchlets, petioles, and inflo-rescences densely yellow-brown tomentose, hairs verticil-lately branched to densely dendritic. Petiole ca. 1-2 cm; leaf blade elliptic to ovate, 15-17 X 3-9 cm, abaxially tomentose, adaxially dark green and glabrescent, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire, apex acuminate to acute. Flowering stems with reduced leaves so that cymes form a terminal panicle. Cymes 6-11 cm across; peduncle 2-5 cm. Corolla purple, ca. 2-2.5 mm, glabrous. Stamens 2 X or more as long as corolla. Fruit purple, ca. 2 mm in diam., stellate tomentose when young, glabrescent. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Aug-Nov.

* 200-1500 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, W Hubei, Jiangxi, E Sichuan, S Zhejiang