Bulb ovoid, 3 cm in diam., produced into a neck about 3 cm long. Leaves up to 4, contemporary with the flowers, linear, tapering to both ends, channelled above, keeled below, 16-30 cm long, about 1.7 cm broad. Peduncle about 14 cm long, arising at the side of the leaves, solid. Spathe-valves ovate, acuminate, 2.5 cm long. Pedicels up to 3 cm long. Flowers about 11 in an umbel, reddish-scarlet; perianth 3 cm long; tube 2.5 cm long, more or less trumpet-shaped, gradually dilated to a throat about 6 mm wide; lobes suborbicular, 5 mm long, 5 mm broad, widely spreading. Stamens biseriate, inserted near the throat of the perianth-tube, subsessile. Style included, trifid.
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