Japan flora: Rhizomes short; leaves linear-oblanceolate, 30-50 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide, acuminate, gradually narrowed at base, glabrous, short- petiolate; scapes about 65 cm. long, white-puberulent, with 2 sheathing scales on the lower half; racemes rather densely many-flowered, about 10 cm. long, the bracts linear-lanceolate, 1-2 cm. long, green; flowers yellowish green; sepals ovate, puberulent without, about 7 mm. long, acute, reflexed-spread- ing; petals oblanceolate, about 6 mm. long, acute; lip slightly longer than the sepals, 3-lobed, with 3 crested merging veins on the inner side, the lateral lobes 4-5 mm. long, elliptic, the terminal lobe broadened at tip, bifid; spur about 8 mm. long, straight; ovary pedicelled, puberulent.