Japan Flora: Leaves rather large, ovate, with a broad white line down the center, the margins un­dulate; scapes much longer than the leaves, 80-100 cm. long, leafy or sometimes naked; racemes about 10-flowered, the bracts 2-2.5 cm. long; perianth 5.5-6 cm. long, white or pale purple. cultivated in our area.

var. erromena (Stearn) F. Maekawa. Leaves about 20 cm. long, 13 cm. wide, long-petioled, lustrous, green, the margins undulate, with about 10 pairs of nerves; scapes about 100 cm. long, with 2 or 3 leaflike scales. Known only in cultivation.