Japan Flora: Bulb-scales compactly imbricate, entire or partially jointed; stems usually 20-80 cm. long, relatively stout, erect, usually with papillose tubercles below and on angles, more or less white-woolly while young; leaves sessile，lanceolate to linear- Ianceolate，4-10 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, 3- to 5-nerved, spread­ing; tepals 8-10 cm. long, usually orange-red, sometimes yel­low or nearly scarlet in cultivated races, spotted, oblanceolate, densely hairy on margin of the nectary groove; anthers red­dish; style erect; capsules erect, 4-5 cm. long. June-Aug. Rocks along seashores; Honshu, Shikoku. Widely grown with numerous horticultural variants.

var. davuricum (Ker-Gawl.) Ohwi. Bulb-scales more often jointed; stems less densely papillose- tubercled but densely woolly. June-Aug. Rocks and sandy meadows along seashores; Hokkaido. Kuriles, Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Korea, Manchuria, Amur, and Dahuria.

var. bukosanense (Honda) Okuyama & T. Koyama. Stems slen­der, ascending to reclining, erect only toward the top, papil- losc-tubercled on lower portion; leaves broadly linear; flowers solitary, rarely 2, erect, spotted. July. Rocky cliffs in mountains; Honshu (Mount Buko in  Musashi)