Plants with the habit of a miniature Iris, greatly discoloring in drying; roots partly slender and fibrous and partly short and tuberous; leaves narrowly ensi-form, 7-25 cm. long, 0.4-0.6 cm. broad, characteristically turgid and patulous, both basal and cauline; flowering stems branching once or repeatedly, more or less flexuose, rather inconspicuously ancipitous, 1-3 dm. tall, surrounded at the base with rather inconspicuous fibers of. past leaves; inflorescence simple, few-flowered; spathe valves about equal, ovate-lanceolate, the outer 2.0-2.5 cm. long; perianth yellow veined with brown, rather narrow, 0.8-1.0 cm. long, glabrous; stamen filaments 0.4-0.6 cm. long, connate to somewhat below the middle; capsules oblongoid-subglobose, about 1 cm. long; seeds about 0.1 cm. in diameter, lustrous and conspicuously reticulate-foveolate.
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