Japan Flora: Stems prostrate, stout, greenish, elongate, with a tuft of leaves at the summit; leaves broadly linear to lanceolate, to narrowly ob-lanceolate, 10-40 cm. long, 5-20 mm. wide, deep green, gla-brous, acute, gradually narrowed below; inflorescence spicate, 3- 8 cm. long, densely many-flowered, glabrous, the scapes 8-12 cm. long, the bracts membranous, ovate-deltoid, 4-7 mm. long; flowers pale rose, the perianth 8-12 mm. long, the seg-ments slightly longer than the tube, reflexed, narrowly oblong, obtuse, slightly fleshy; stamens shorter than to as long as the style, the anthers about 2 mm. long. Aug.-Oct. Woods in lowlands and foothills;

Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Often planted in our gardens. China.