Japan Flora: Rhizomes stout, short; leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, sometimes linear-lanceolate, 10-20 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, acute to acuminate, vivid green, glabrous, chartaceous, about 10-nerved, spreading; scapes 20-40 cm. long, glan-dular-viscid above, with few small linear leaves; spike solitary, 5- 20 cm. long, loosely flowered below, the bracts lanceolate, shorter to slightly longer than the flowers; flowers rather many, short-pedicel led, 6-8 mm. long, yellow-green, glandular- viscid on the exterior; capsules 3-4 mm. long, enveloped by the persistent perianth-tube. June-Aug. Mountain mead ows and lower alpine regions;

Hokkaido, Honshu (n. and centr. distr.), Shikoku.