Cyrtanthus obliquus (L.F.) L.F.

Bulb subglobose, up to about 10 cm in diameter, contracted into a neck above ground, covered with chestnut tunics, occasionally budding from the base into clumps of 3 or 4. Leaves 4-12 from a bulb, contemporary with the flowers, distichous, strap-shaped, 20-60 cm long, 3-6 cm broad, obtuse, twisted towards the apex. Peduncle 20-60 cm tall, 1.3 cm in diameter at the base, hollow. Spathe-valves ovate-oblong, acuminate, 3 cm long, 1 cm broad. Pedicels up to 2 cm long, recurved. Flowers 6-12 in an umbel, pendulous; perianth about 7 cm long, yellow and red or yellowish green tinged with red, or red on the tube passing into green on the lobes; tube straight or slightly curved at the base, dilated to a throat about 2 cm wide, about 4.5 cm long; lobes about 2.5 cm long and 1.5 cm broad. Stamens in one row towards the base of the perianth-tube; filaments 3 cm long. Style nearly equalling the perianth in length, slightly trifid at the apex. August to February, with a peak in November and December.