Japan Flora: Glabrous, rather fleshy, vivid green perennial with short rhizomes; leaves 7-10, radical, obovate- cuncate, 2-4 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, rounded, cuneately nar­rowed to a petiolelike base, 公at, without distinct nerves, with a few coarse teeth on upper margin; scapes 5-15 cm, long, um- bcllately 3- to 6-flowered, the bracts linear, entire, small, the pedicels 5-10 mm. long, minutely glandular-dotted; flowers rose-purple, about 2 cm. across, fully expanding; calyx 4-6 mm. long, 5-cleft, the teeth lanceolate, obsoletcly mucronate; corolla­tube 7-8 mm. long, shorter than the limb; capsules broadly ovoid-ellipsoidal, about 5 mm. long, as long as to slightly shorter than the calyx. July-Aug. Wet alpine slopes; Hok­kaido.Kuriles, Sakhalin, Ochotsk Sea region, Aleutians, and Alaska.

var. hakusanensis (Franch.) Makino. Larger; leaves 3-8 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, the teeth more numerous, unequal, narrower; scapes 5-20 cm. long, 1- to 10- floxvered, the pedicels 1-2 cm. long. Wet alpinc dopes. Honshu (centr. and n. distr.).

var. heterodonta (Franch.) Makino. Plant larger and the leaves broader. Mount Iwaki in Honshu.