Leaves to c. 60 cm long; lamina channelled, keeled, c. 5 mm wide; margins straight and slightly thickened, crenulate-scabrid or smooth. Inflorescence loosely racemose, to c. 0.75 m long, 3-20-flowered; peduncle to c. 4 mm diam.; pedicels to 3 cm long, much longer than subtending bract. Perianth usually 2-3 cm long, brownish red with yellow lobes; tube narrowed in lower 1/3, expanded and ±cylindrical above, to c. 1 cm wide at throat; lobes ovate, obtuse but apiculate, c. 5 mm long. Filaments 1.5-2 cm long, attached just below middle of perianth tube; anthers oblong, 2-2.8 mm long. Capsule to c. 6 cm long including style; stipe to c. 2.5 cm long.