Japan Flora: Rhizomes stout, short; leaves linear, pale green, 3- ribbed, 15-30 cm. long, 3-7 mm. wide, slightly folded; scapes erect, few to several, 30-50 cm. long, sparingly leafy, with short white curled farinaceous hairs; spike 15-25 cm. long, many-flowered, the bracts linear, longer to shorter than the flowers, the pedicels nearly absent; flowers erect, 5-6 mm. long, white and sometimes slightly tinged dull red; fruit obovoid, about 3 mm. long. Apr.-May. Hills and low mountains;

Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; com-moner westw. Ryukyus and Formosa.