Crinum minimum Milne-redh.

Bulbs from about 5 to 8 cm long, 3-5 cm diam., produced into a neck from about 3 to 10 cm long, tunics at the apex comparatively thin and papery. Leaves about 8, flaccid, narrowly linear, about 18 cm long, deeply canaliculate, 1.5-4 mm broad when flattened, glabrous, margins smooth, many nerved on dried specimens, nerves obscure in fresh leaves. Peduncle short arising from dense papery tunics at the apex of the bulb, 3-11 cm long. Spathe-valves soon becoming thin and papery, 7-10 cm long, 3-9 mm broad at the base, narrowing towards the apex. Umbel usually 1-flowered. Pedicel 0 or very short. Perianth with a tube 8-12 cm long, nodding; segments white with a deep rose dorsal keel, sometimes pale pink tinted, 9-12 cm long, 0.8-1.6 cm broad, attenuate to an acute apex, the inner slightly broader than the outer, conniving in a funnel shape, at a stage somewhat zygomorphic, the three lower segments spreading and the three upper ascending and somewhat recurved, apical peak 2-5 cm long. Stamens declinate, filaments white or pink flushed. Style declinate, deep rose. Fruit subglobose, (not known whether beaked or not), about 2 cm diam.; seed smooth.