Japan Flora: Bulbs subcylindric, 30-50 cm. long, 3-5 cm. in diameter; leaves rather fleshy, 30-70 cm. long, 4-8 cm. wide, hyaline on the margin, glabrous, slightly lust­rous, gradually narrowed above; scapes erect, 50-80 cm. long, naked, decumbent in fruit; umbels many-flowered, the subtend­ing bracts 2, linear-oblong, abruptly acuminate, 6-8 cm. long; flowers white, the perianth-tube slender, the segments broadly linear, acute, 6-7 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, shorter than the tube; anthers linear, 17-22 mm. long; capsules subglobose; seeds globose or rounded with obtuse angles, 2-2.5 cm. long and as wide, the testa gray-white and spongy. Aug.-Sept. Sandy sea beaches

Honshu (s. Kanto Distr. and westw.〉, Shi­koku, Kyushu. The typical phase is widely distributed in tropical Asia.