Japan Flora: Stems 40-60 cm. long, erect; scalelike leaves loose, broadly ovate, 1-1.5 cm. long, 8-10 mm. wide, slightly clasping, very obtuse, membranous, appressed, the upper scales narrowly ovate, obtuse, 2 cm. long; racemes rather densely many-flowered, 15-20 cm. long, the bracts lanceolate, acute with an obtuse tip, membranous, 8-15 mm. long, 1.5-3 mm. wide; flowers ascending at first, later spreading or slightly deflexed, pedicelled; sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 3-nerved, ascending, 1-1.2 cm. long; petals nearly as long as the sepals but slightly narrower, 1-nerved; lip nearly as long as the sepals, erect, auriculate, slightly recurved at tip, the claw about 2 mm. long, the limb ovate, obsoletely 3-lobed, the lateral lobes small，obscure, the terminal deltoid, obtuse, the auricles broader than long, obliquely deltoid, acute, about 3 mm. long; column slightly shorter than the sepals; capsules deflexed, 3-3.5 cm. long, 7-10 mm. wide, straight, linear, terete, with the base of the column persistent at the apex. Sept. In broad-leaved evergreen forests;

Kyushu (s. distr. and Tanegashima). Ryukyus.