Description:—Bulb 5 cm. long, 3·5 cm. in diameter, sub-globose, produced above into a short neck. Leaves 3, contemporary with the flowers, 5·5-11·5 cm. long, 0·8-16 cm. broad, strap-shaped, obtuse, narrowing and channelled at the base. Peduncle arising at the side of the leaves, about 10 cm. long, flattened. Spathe-valves 2 cm. long, linear, acuminate. Inflorescence an umbel of about 25 flowers. Pedicels 2-3 cm. long. Perianth tube 3 mm. long; segments about 1 cm. long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, united to the staminal tube by the midrib. Stamens of two different lengths, the filaments united below into a tube 4 mm. long; free portions of filaments 8 mm. and 5 mm. long; anthers of long stamens globose, of short stamens oblong. Ovary 1·6 mm. in diameter, globose; style short in bud, lengthening to 15 mm. in older flowers.
Plate 43.—Fig. 1, section through perianth × 3; Fig. 2, lobe of perianth × 3.
F.P.S.A., 1922.
K. A. Lansdell del.