Crinum variabile Herb.

Bulb about 26 cm long, narrowing gradually towards the apex (not abruptly narrowed into a neck), 5-9 cm diam. near the base, new plants sprouting around the bulb and from within the tunics. Leaves deep green, rather firm, varying in length and width on the same plant, 8-35 cm long, 0.4-4 cm broad; margins with a cartilaginous border and with minute, distant teeth. Peduncle 30-40 cm long, slightly compressed, 1-1.8 cm broad. Spathe-valves 6-7 cm long, 1.5-2 cm broad at the base, reflexing and becoming somewhat papery. Umbel 6-12-flowered. Pedicels 2.5-5 cm long. Perianth with the tube shorter than the segments, 3-4 cm long, curved; segments white suffused at the base with green and with rose dorsally, turning deep pink as they fade, conniving into a funnel shape, the upper portion spreading and recurving, 6-9 cm long, 1.5-2 cm broad; apical peak small about 2 mm long. Ovary swelling rather more obvious than in other species, not tapering as much to base and apex, fruit without a beak or shortly beaked; seed smooth.