Babiana toximontana J.C.Manning & Goldblatt

Plants 80-150 mm high. Stem reaching shortly above ground, velvety, strongly inflexed and horizontal, few-branched. Leaves 5 or 6, lanceolate, lightly coiled distally, held at ± 45º to sheaths, 50-100 x 7-18 mm, velvety, lightly pleated. Spike horizontal, secund, mostly 5-to 10-flowered; bracts green with brown tips, velvety, truncate, outer 14-20(-30) mm long, inner 11-15(-20) mm long, divided to base. Flowers zygomorphic, pale to deep blue, lower lateral tepals with white median blotches and wine-red streaks, with sweet spicy scent; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 12-14 mm long; tepals unequal, dorsal 28-32 x 6-8 mm, upper lateral tepals joined to lower for ± 5 mm, forming a lip, lower tepals ± 20 mm long. Stamens unilateral; filaments ± 15 mm long; anthers 7 mm long, lilac. Ovary densely hairy; style dividing opposite anther tips, branches ± 4 mm long.