Small to robust plants, up to 150 cm., flowering with or before the leaves.. Bulb-scales with or without fibrous apex.. Leaves narrowly lanceolate and glabrous, up to 55 cm. long and 6-15 mm. wide.. Inflorescence a raceme with 5-40 flowers; pedicels 1.5-10 cm.; flowers erect.. Perianth-segments 12-21 mm., white to cream with vascular bundles assembled in a green midrib, inner strongly cucullate and connivent, outer weakly cucullate and ± spreading.. Inner filaments clasping the ovary, outer flattened.. Ovary 5-7 mm. long; style wide and ± as long as the ovary.. Capsule 10-18 mm. long.. Seeds ± 4 mm. long.