Crinum lineare L.F.

Bulbs 7-14 cm long, 6-9 cm broad, produced into a neck sometimes up to 14 cm long, new bulbs form readily from the base. Leaves grass green, linear, canaliculate, rather firm, about 65 cm long or longer, 0.5-2.5 cm broad near the base when flattened, arching from the base; margins smooth or with minute distant teeth. Peduncle 18-60 cm long, subcompressed in the lower portion, 1-1.8 cm broad, 0.7 cm thick. Spathe-valves 4-7 cm long, 1-2 cm broad at the base, fairly substantial on preserved flowering specimens, reflexed. Umbels 4-14-flowered. Pedicels from very short to 2.5 cm long. Perianth with the tube shorter than the segments in some plants and longer in others, 3-10 cm long, curving; segments white suffused with pale pink and with a deep-rose dorsal keel, fading pink, the outer 1.4-2 cm broad, the inner slightly broader, conniving to form a funnel with the upper third recurved; apical peaks 4-5 mm long on the outer segments, shorter on the inner. Stamens declinate; filaments white or the upper portion purplish red; anthers black. Style purplish-red towards the apex. Fruit with a short beak.