Crinum buphanoides Welw. ex Baker

Bulb large, about 15 cm diam., produced into a neck 0f varying lengths. Leaves light green, distichous, heathing at the base, forming a leafy false stem up to about 30 cm high, the lowest the broadest, up to 15 cm broad, each successive leaf above narrower, the uppermost (the youngest), about 1 cm broad, margins ciliate with minute cartilaginous teeth. Peduncle lateral stout more or less 45 cm long, 2.5 cm broad and 1.5 cm thick. Spathe-valves about 10 cm long, 3.5 cm wide at the base, reflexed; bracteoles white, narrowly linear, about 5 cm long. Umbel 13-40-flowered. Pedicels 1.5-4.5 cm long. Perianth with a long slender tube, 7-10 cm long; segments white to pink, usually with a deep red keel, narrow and spreading abruptly, recurved, about 6.5 cm long, usually under 1 cm wide, lower portion with infolded margins covering the basal portion of the filaments, peaked apex usually under 5 mm long, reflexed apex bearded. Stamens arcuate erect, filaments rose in the upper portion. Style deep rose in the upper part. Fruit not seen.