Cyrtanthus fergusoniae L.Bolus

Bulb ovoid, up to 5.5 x 4.5 cm. Leaves (0)1(2) at flowering, linear, glabrous, 35 cm or more long and about 5 mm broad. Peduncle hollow throughout its length, 20-45 cm long, 0.7-1.1 cm diam. Spathe-valves up to 8 cm long and 2 cm broad. Pedicels 1-2 cm long. Flowers 4-8 in an umbel, spreading or somewhat pendulous; perianth 6-8 cm long, brilliant red; tube 4-5 cm long, curved, gradually dilated to a throat 7-9 mm wide; lobes obtuse, 2-3 cm long, 0.9-1.3 cm broad. Stamens biseriate; filaments 1.2-1.8 cm long, the outer three attached to the base and the three inner ones well above the base of the perianth-lobes. Style about as long as the stamens; stigmas very short and rounded. Capsule sub-clavate-cylindrical, up to 3 cm long, the seeds 8 mm broad.