Japan Flora: Small delicate plant with slight odor; bulbs broadly ovoid, 6-10 mm. long, the outer coat transversely un­dulate, firmly membranous; leaves 1-2, nearly radical, linear, 10-20 cm. long, 3-8 mm. wide, lunate in cross section, soft, narrowed at both ends, subobtuse, 9- to 13-nerved, smooth, the midrib obscure; scapes 5-12 cm. long, delicate, the spathe thinly membranous》ovoid, 6-7 mm. long, entire; flowers solitary, rarely 2, white to pinkish, 4-5 mm. long, campanulate, the pedicels rather short, the tepals oblong to narrowly ovate, subobtuse; style short, 3-lobed nearly to the middle; capsules globose. Apr. Woods and thickets in hills and the lower mountains.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku. Korea, Man­churia, and Ussuri.