Drimia ciliata (L.F.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt

Plants deciduous, solitary or gregarious. Bulb subglobose, ± 20-25 mm diam., scales adherent, white, becoming membranous. Leaves hysteranthous, (4)6 to 8, rosulate, prostrate, elliptic to obovate, progressively smaller, mostly 15-30 x 7-20 mm, acute, glabrous, margins thickened and hyaline, papillate with peripheral papillae elongated and usually ± recurved scabrid-ciliate, dark glossy green, firm-leathery. Inflorescence a moderately lax or sometimes contracted raceme 100-200(-350) mm tall, 10-to 20-flowered, flowers mostly 5-10 mm apart; scape straight or rarely somewhat sprawling, 0.5-1.5 mm diam., densely puberulous-scabridulous in lower part; bracts ovate-triangular, 1.0-1.5 mm long, spur to 0.5 mm long; pedicels spreading, (5-)10-20(-25) mm long at anthesis, filiform and wiry. Flowers diurnal, spreading to slightly nodding, rotate, faintly and sweetly honeysuckle-scented, nodding and globose in bud; tepals connate at base for up to 0.5 mm, spreading-incurved or outer reflexed, elliptic to ovate, 5-6 x 2-3 mm, inner sometimes wider than outer, apices penicillate or ciliate, white with dark midrib. Filaments suberect to weakly spreading, subulate, 2-3 mm long, sometimes almost connate at base, white. Anthers medifixed, oblong, 1 mm long, dehiscence longitudinal, yellow. Ovary ovoid, ± 2 mm long, pale green; style 2 mm long, white; stigma trilete, smooth. Capsules ovoid, 3-7 x 3-5 mm. Seeds angular, wrinkled, 2.0-2.5 mm long, glossy black, testa reticulate.