Plants with the habit of a miniature Iris, surrounded at the base with the matted fibers of past leaves, discoloring in drying; roots partly slender and fibrous and partly short and tuberous; leaves linear-ensiform, 9-15 cm. long, 0.1-0.2 cm. broad, erect, borne both basally and sparsely upon the stem; flowering stems 1.5-2.0 dm. tall, inconspicuously an-cipitous, usually simple and straight, infrequently branching and then somewhat flexuose; inflorescence simple, 2-to 6-flowered; spathe valves subequal, lanceolate, the outer 2.5-4.0 cm. long; perianth broadly ampuliform, yellow veined with brown, 1.2-1.5 cm. long, glabrous; stamen filaments 0.4-0.6 cm. long, connate somewhat below the middle; capsules oblongoid, 1.0-1.3 cm. long, about 0.4 cm. broad; seeds subglobose, about 0.13 cm. in diameter, opaque, smooth or very inconspicuously foveolate, with a very deep micropylar pit.
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