Brunsvigia marginata (Jacq.) W.T.Aiton

Bulb 4-5 cm long, about 4 cm in diameter with a dark brown tunic. Leaves 4, produced 'after' the flowers, spreading on ground, obovate-oblong or long-ligulate, obtuse, up to about 25 cm long, 6-7 cm broad, with a reddish crisped cartilaginous margin. Peduncle compressed, about 12-20 cm tall and 1 cm thick. Spathe-valves 2, deltoid, 2-3 cm long. Umbel with 10-20 flowers. Pedicels somewhat spreading, 5-7 cm long, 2-3 cm thick, not much tapered. Perianth more or less regular, bright scarlet, 3-3.5 cm long; tube 5-7 mm long; lobes lanceolate, spreading recurved, slightly undulate. Stamens longer than the perianth, nearly straight, anthers oblong, 6-8 mm long. Style straight, slightly longer than stamens. Ovary moderately 3-angled, turbinate, 1-1.5 cm long, 5.8 mm broad across the angles; capsule up to 2 cm long, 1.5 cm broad.