Cyrtanthus thorncroftii C.H.Wright

Bulb subglobose, 2 cm diam. with a neck 3-5 cm long and 7 mm thick. Leaves 2, contemporary with the flowers, linear, acuminate and tapering to the base, 15-20 cm long and 5 mm broad. Peduncle slightly compressed, about 25 cm tall, 3 mm thick. Spathe-valves about 3.5 mm long. Pedicels up to 2 cm long. Flowers 1-2; perianth about 3-4 cm long; tube 1.7-2 cm long, narrow at the base for about 5-10 mm, curved, expanding sharply to the throat, funnel-shaped; lobes equal or slightly shorter than the tube, elliptic-oblong, acute. Stamens inserted in the throat of the perianth-tube, outer filaments 2 mm long, the inner ones 4 mm long. Ovary triangular. Style 3 cm long with recurved branches 4 mm long.