Boophone haemanthoides F.M.Leight.

Bulb ovoid or rotund up to 18 cm diam.: tunics and fleshy roots arising from the tough horny axis 3-5 cm diam., 2-4 cm high. Leaves hysteranthous, 15-30 cm long, 5-10 cm broad, entire, obtuse. Scape 15-25 cm long, 2-5-3 cm diam.: umbel many-flowered, dense: spathe valves 2, pinkish or red up to 14 cm long and 8-5 cm broad, suberect even when the flowers are open, recurving towards the obtuse apex. Flowers regular, perianth creamy yellow becoming reddish with age: perianth tube 5-7 mm long, 6-angled with deep grooves between the angles: segments 3-3-5 cm long, cucullate, 3-4 mm broad near the apex narrowed to 2 mm at the base. Stamens exserted 1 cm or more beyond the perianth, filaments slender, erect, attached to the perianth segments a little above the tube. Style 5-10 mm longer than the stamens, stigma small, inconspicuous, minutely papillose, ovary obconic, sharply angled.