Leaves horizontally spreading, flat, long-petioled, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, slightly undulate, acuminate, abruptly narrowed at base, 13-18 cm. long, 7-12 cm. wide, with about 9 nerves, the margin whitish or yellowish; scapes about 80 cm. long, erect, the bracts broadly ovate or ovate-elliptic, 9一15 mm. long, acute; flowers about 4 cm. long, purplish. 

Leaves broadly lanceolate to ovate-oblong, petioled, 5-20 cm. long, glaucescent; scapes 45-60 cm. long, 1-scaled; racemes erect, the bracts lanceolate, purplish; flowers deep purple. High mountains.

Leaves firm, long-petioled, oblong-lanceolate, 17-20 cm. long, 6-7 cm. wide, slightly undulate, with 7 pairs of nerves, acute, gray- green, decurrent below on the petiole; scapes about 80 cm. long, the bracts loose; flowers slightly nodding, 3.7-5 cm. long, whitish, die outer perianth-lobes ovate, subacute, about 12 mm. wide, the pedicels 9-12 mm. long, the bracts elliptic, subacute, green with purplish striae; stamens shorter than the perianth, the anthers whitish. Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.). s. Kuriles, Sakhalin, and Ussuri.

Leaves ascending, long-petioled, elliptic, 9-12 cm. long, 5-6 cm. wide, short-acuminate to subobtuse, narrowed below and rounded at base, flat, dull, 5-nerved, the margins white; scapes about 50 cm. long, median scales clasping, the bracts involute, broadened at base, the pedicels very short; flowers nodding, about 5.2 cm. long, pale purple, the outer perianth-lobes oblong, acuminate, about 2 cm. long, 1 cm. wide. 

Leaves rather thick, obliquely spreading, petiolate, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 7-10 cm. long, 22-28 mm. wide, acute, obsoletely glandular-dotted, cuneate below and decurrent on the petiole, flat except the sometimes undulate margin, rather lustrous; scapes about 50 cm. long, slender, terete, green; racemes loose, one-sided, about 12-flowered, the bracts thinly membranous, ovate, boat-shaped, 7-12 mm. long, translucent, equaling to slightly longer than the spreading pedicel; peri­anth about 4 cm. long, pale purple, the outer lobes spreading, narrowly elliptic, about 16.5 mm. long; stamens long-exserted.           

f. normalis Stearn. Midori-otafuku- giboshi. Leaves green. Spontaneous in Honshu (Shinano Prov.)

Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 7-11 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, acute, undulate on lower margin and narrowly decurrent on the petiole, dull above, with 3-4 pairs of nerves; scapes 40-45 cm. long, erect, slender, the bracts green, very acute, the pedicels very short, curved; flower-buds clavate, obtuse, the flowers at right angles to the scape, about 4 cm. long, white to pale purplish. Mountains

Leaves obliquely spreading, narrowly ovate, elliptic, or ovate-elliptic, 10-16 cm. long, 5-8 cm. wide, acute to acumi­nate, narrowed and obtuse at base, dull and gray-green above, flat or slightly undulate, 5- to 6-nerved; scapes erect, about 45 cm. long, loosely 2- to 5-scaled; racemes erect, about 30-flow- ered, the bracts 1.5-3 cm. long, green, narrowly ovate, acumi­nate; flowers spreading in anthesis, later nodding, about 5 cm. long, the pedicels about 6 mm. long, the perianth pale purple.   

Hokkaido. Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr., Kinki, Kanto), Shikoku. s. Kuriles, Sakhalin, and Ussuri