Japan Flora: Plants with strong onion odor; bulbs lanceolate, 4-7 cm. long, the outer coat consisting of netted fibers, brown-yellow; leaves 2-3, oblong to broadly oblanceo­late, 20-30 cm. long, 3-10 cm. wide, subobtuse to subacute, entire, narrowed to the pctiolelike base below, slightly glau­cous, somewhat fleshy, the midrib slightly raised beneath; scape 40-70 cm. long, the spathe ovoid, enveloping the lower portion, 2-parted in anthesis; flowers white or creamy-white, the pedicels 1.5-3 cm. long, the tepals ascending, oblong, 5-6 mm. long, obtuse; stamens and style longer than the tepals, the anthers yellow-green. June-July. Moist woods in high mountains.

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr. and Ya­rn ato Prov.). Sakhalin, Kuriles, Kamchatka, Korea, China, and e. Siberia