Japan Flora: Bulbs depressed-globose (a seashore race exists with short stolons), 15-3 cm. in diam- eter，the scales many, white short-stiped or jointed; stems 10-50 cm. long, erect, with few to several whorls of leaves; leaves in verticils of (2-) 3-5, sessile, 5-7 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, sub- obtuse to subacute, lanceolate to ovate-oblong; flowers 1 to sev­eral, on short pedicels, nodding, dark brown-purple, broadly campanulate, foetid, the tepals rather thick, 2-3 cm. long, 7-10 mm. wide, obtuse, papillose-hairy at apex, the glands nearly basal; style 3-parted nearly to the base; capsules obovoid- globose, 2-2.5 cm. long. (June) July-Aug.

Hokkaido (rocky phees along seashores in eastern distr. and alpine regions in centr. distr.), Honshu (centr. and n. alpine regions). Kamchatka, Kuriles, Sakhalin, Ussuri, and N. America.