Ammocharis longifolia (L.) Herb.

Bulb ovoid, about 10-11 cm in diameter, up to about 18 cm long including the neck, tunicated. Leaves 9-13, strap-shaped, often falcate, variable in length and width, 1.3-1.6 cm wide, 6-40 cm long, striate, smooth, glabrous, glaucous, margins scarious and conspicuously erose or almost entire. Scape 12-20 cm long, ancipitous, glabrous, smooth, erect. Umbel 13-24-flowered. Spaihe-valves 4.7-5 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, broadly lanceolate, more or less acute, thinly coriaceous, rather opaque, conspicuously nerved; bracts filiform, obtuse, usually widened at the apex. Pedicels angular, at the time of flowering 5-11 cm long, elongating and rigid in fruit. Perianth varying in colour from pale to dark pink, shiny, sweetly scented; tube subcylindrical, widening slightly towards the mouth, variable in length, 0.8-1.5 cm long; lobes oblanceolate, obtuse, 4-6.5 cm long, 0.8-1.4 cm wide, imbricate below, gradually spreading towards the apex. Stamens unequal, slightly spreading, declinate, exserted from the tube; filaments filiform, 3-4.7 cm long; anthers 4-8 mm long, curved. Ovary about 10 mm long, hardly distinguishable from the apex of the pedicel and the base of the tube; ovules 8-18 per loculus; style filiform, triangular in section, exserted 4-6.2 cm beyond the perianth-tube. Fruit with the pedicel elongate, clavate; capsule indehiscent, pyriform, ovoid, ellipsoid to subfusiform, about 3.5-5 cm long and 2 cm in diameter, somewhat triquetrous with an additional median rib on each face, contracted towards the apex into a blunt beak often crowned with the remains of the perianth, drawn out below into the stout triquetrous much elongated pedicel. Seeds subglobose or somewhat bluntly angled by pressure, about 12 mm in diameter, fleshy.