Cyrtanthus labiatus R.A.Dyer

Bulb subglobose, about 35 mm diam., contracted into a short neck, covered with dry membranous brown scales. Leaves 3-4, contemporary with the inflorescence, up to about 300 mm long and 20 mm broad, gradually contracted to apex and base, slightly concave on upper surface, glabrous, slightly glaucous. Peduncle about 300 mm long, cylindric ± 10 mm diam., hollow, about 8-flowered, with the flowers more or less spreading (in cult.); spathe-valves 2, ± 40 mm long, ± 5 mm broad; pedicels more or less erect, of different lengths, up to about 22 mm long. Ovary cylindric, 6-7 mm long, Perianth zygomorphic, labiate, 55-60 mm long, light coral-red; tube about 35 mm long, 2.5 mm at base and evenly expanded to mouth 6 mm diam., very slightly fluted from mouth; lobes 4 + 2, four upper ones (2 outer, 2 inner) overlapping and forming a hood, 20 mm long, outer 6 mm broad, inner 7 mm broad; two lower ones (1 outer 1 inner), spreading decurved; filaments (4 + 2) attached more or less in perianth throat; anthers ± 3 mm long when dehiscing. Style becoming slightly longer than the stamens under the hood and decurved from slightly below stigma; stigma subcapitate, very slightly 3-grooved.