Japan Flora: Plants with partially fusiform-thickcned roots and often with slender stolons; leaves 30-50 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, deep green, flat, scveral-nervcd, gradually narrowed above, obtuse, scabrid- ulous on the margin especially above; scapes 20-30 cm. long, 3-anglcd, compressed, 1.5-2 mm. wide; racemes 5-7 cm. long; flowers pale purple or white, 6-7 mm. long, nodding, the bracts linear-lanceolate, the pedicels 1-3 in a group, 5-10 mm. long, jointed at or above the middle; anthers 2.5-3 mm. long; seeds dull blue. July-Aug. Woods and thickets in lowlands and foothills;

Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu.