Bulb globose to ovoid [as 'avoid'], 5-8 cm in diam., budding freely from the base, contracted into a neck 8-12 cm long, densely covered with membranous tunics. Leaves usually 4, contemporary with flowers or produced during flowering periods, falcate, evenly narrowed to the apex, about 25 cm long, 2-3 cm broad, leathery. Peduncle 25-30 cm tall, recurved and somewhat flattened just below the umbel, making the whole umbel pendulous. Spathe-valves about 4, oblong-or linear-lanceolate, the largest up to 5 cm long and 1.25 cm broad. Pedicels about 1 cm long. Flowers 6-10 in an umbel, pendulous; perianth about 6 cm long, red, evenly dilated from the base to a throat about 1 cm wide; tube 4 cm long; lobes more or less obovate-oblong, about 2 cm long and 1.25 cm broad, the outer three with an indexed apiculus with a few hairs. Stamens uniseriate or very indistinctly biseriate, inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube; filaments exserted, about 1.25 cm long, bases extended into a sub-coronal ridge, sometimes with basal lobules. Ovary oblong, becoming oblong-elliptic. Style slightly shorter than the perianth, trifid.
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