Japan Flora: Rhizomes short, branching, scarcely fibrous; leaves pale green, somewhat glaucous beneath, 20-40 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide, thin, sev- eral-nerved, slightly papillose on upper margin; scapes 15-30 cm. long, 2- to 3-flowered, the green bracts 2-3, 5-10 cm. long, ensiform, the branches 3-7 cm. long, the bracteoles connate at base, 1.5-2 cm. long, the pedicels 1-2 mm. long, much shorter than the ovary; flowers 4-5 cm. across, pale purple, the perianth-tube about 12 mm. long, the outer segments obovate, very shortly clawed, with a median crest toward the lower half, the inner segments ascending, spathulate-oblong; stigma appendages bifid, fringed; fruit globose; seeds obovate, about 3 mm. long, keeled. May-June. Mountains;

Hokkaido (sw. distr.), Honshu (Kinki Distr. and eastw.), Kyushu.