Japan Flora: Leaves linear-oblanceolate, 17-19 cm long, 1.7-2 cm. wide, subobtuse, long-tapering to the petiole, spreading-recurved, flat above, dull; scapes about 50 cm. long; racemes usually 3-flowered; flowers small, spreading, pale rose- purple, the outer perianth-lobes oblong-lanceolate, erect, acute, about 12 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, the pedicels 6-9 mm. long, shorter than the bract, purplish, curved; capsules nodding, about 3.3 cm. long.

Honshu (w. distr.).

var. brevifolia F. Maekawa. Leaves erects spreading, 17-19 cm. long, 17-2 cm. wide; racemes 3« to 5-flowered, the bracts 8-9 mm. long, very acute. Wet places; Honshu (centr. distr. and westw.)