Cyrtanthus odorus Ker Gawl.

Bulb ovoid, 2-2.5 cm in diam., with a short neck. Leaves 2-3, absent or contemporary with the flowers, linear, 12-15 cm long, 2.5-3 mm broad, slightly and gradually contracted to the apex and base. Peduncle approximately equal in length to the leaves, slender. Spathe-valves 2, lanceolate, 2.5-3 cm long. Pedicels less than half the length of the spathe-valves, or subobsolete. Flowers about 4 in an umbel, nodding; perianth 5-6 cm long, dark red; tube about 4 cm long, curved, narrowly trumpet-shaped, dilated gradually from a very slender base to a throat 6-7 mm wide; lobes narrowly oblong, 1.5 cm long, 5 mm broad, somewhat spreading. Stamens markedly biseriate, included; filaments short. Style exserted, trifid.