Cipura Aubl.

Small or mediocre herbs from a tunicated corm; leaves basal, distichous, nar-rowly ensiform; flowering scape terminated by a leaf-like spathe, the short flower-ing peduncle appearing lateral, bearing 2-4 rather pretty, very evanescent light blue or white flowers; perianth tube obsolete, the outer lobes obovate-cuneate, reflexed, the inner much shorter, persistently connivent; style filiform, the branches oblong, dilated and somewhat petaloid; capsule oblong-turbinate, 3-valved.