Japan Flora: Bulbs ob­long, on short rhizomes, the outer fibrous coat brownkh and finely netted; leaves 3-4, narrowly linear, 12-20 cm. long, 1.2-2 mm. wide, flattened, fleshy, weakly 3-ribbed beneath, green; scapes terete, 12-25 cm. long; flowers white, the pedi­cels filiform, 6-12 mm. long, the tepals of the inner whorl about 4 mm. long; stamens about 6 mm. long, exserted, the filaments of the inner whorl abrupdy dilated and often obsoletely toothed at base; capsules globose, 4-4.5 mm. long. July.

Shikoku (Kankakci, Azuki Isl. in Sanuki Prov.); very rare.