Japan Flora: Glabrous glaucescent herb from elongate creeping rhizomes 4-5 mm. in diameter, the inter-nodes elongate; stems 30-60 cm. long, rather stout, ascending and angled above; leaves 5-9, oblong, rather thin, glabrous, short-petiolate, 10-15 cm. long, 4-7 cm. wide, glaucous be-neath; peduncles 3- to 7-flowered, 1.5-3 cm. long, with 3-7 bracts at the apex, the bracts thinly membranous, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 1-nerved, slightly folded, 4-8 mm. long, pale green; flowers pale green, 22-25 mm. long, urceolate- tubular, the pedicels nearly as long as the bracts, the perianth inside partially pubescent; anthers about 4 mm. long, about half as long as the filaments. June. Mountains;

Kyushu; rare. Korea and Manchuria.