Brunsvigia grandiflora Lindl.

Bulb oval, with no neck. Leaves lingulate, pale green, falcate, flat, erect, roughish at the margin. Scape ascending, compressed, somewhat glaucous, a foot and a half high (45 cm). Umbel spreading with about 30 flowers. Spathe-valves 2, membranous, pale brown, acuminate. Pedicels tapering. Perianth 6-parted, nearly equally spreading, segments flesh-coloured, linear-oblong, wavy, bluntish, somewhat recurved; the inner the broadest; stamens inserted into the throat, declinate, rather shorter than the perianth. Stamens with subulate filaments. Style filiform, declinate, stigma small, obscurely 3-lobed, papillose. Ovary 3-celled, with numerous fleshy distichous ovules. This description may be amplified by saying: Bulb subterranean 8-20 cm long, 6-14 cm diam. with a thick membranous tunic. Leaves produced about the same time as the scape, ascending, 20-45 cm long, 2.5-4.5 cm broad, somewhat glaucous, flat or somewhat undulate and slightly twisted in the apical third. Pedicels about 15-25 cm long. Perianth light to dark pink, 5-7 cm long; tube 7-8 mm long; lobes about 12 mm broad. Ovary obtusely 3-angled; capsule scarcely angled.