Brunsvigia gregaria R.A.Dyer

Bulb subglobose, 3-6 cm diam. with short neck and cartilaginous tunic and sometimes with bristles; the young scales with a band of cartilaginous thickening below the neck of the bulb. Leaves 4-6, rarely 8, appearing soon 'after' the inflorescence, spreading on ground, up to 18 cm long and 8 cm broad, smooth on both surfaces but sometimes puberulous on the upper surface when young, with scabrous and slightly viscid margin. Peduncle compressed, 12-25 cm tall, rarely less, 1-2.5 cm diam. Spathe-valves deltoid, 4-5 cm long, 3-3.5 cm broad. Umbel 30-50-flowered, occasionally more. Pedicels reddish-brown, 7-15 cm long, very rarely less than 7 cm, 6-ribbed. Perianth pink to crimson, 3-5 cm long, with tube about 4-5 mm long; lobes linear-lanceolate, undulate or nearly flat. Stamens more or less biseriate, about equal or shorter than the perianth. Ovary 3-angled; capsules in robust specimens up to 3 cm long and 2.2 cm broad, but generally less.