Watsonia amatolae Goldblatt

Plants 400-600 mm high. Corm subglobose, 25-35 mm diam.; tunics finely to coarsely netted. Stem erect, simple or with 1 or 2 short branches. Leaves 2 to 4, lower 1 to 3 basal, reaching to ± base of spike, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 5-10(-14) mm wide, midrib and margins moderately or sometimes heavily thickened and hyaline, uppermost sheathing lower half of stem; bract-like cauline leaves 2 or more, overlapping. Spike (6)10-to 20-flowered; bracts green below but dry and brown in upper half or throughout, 1.0-1.5(2.0) internodes long and usually shortly overlapping or somewhat lax, (10-)12-15 mm long, inner somewhat shorter, forked apically for 2-4 mm. Flowers zygomorphic, bright pink or purplish pink; perianth tube with lower part 10-12 mm long, usually included in bracts, upper part ascending, funnel-shaped, 6-8 mm long; tepals suberect, oblanceolate, 16-20 x 7-9 mm. Filaments unilateral and arcuate, 9-14 mm long, shortly exserted from tube; anthers 6-8 mm long, purple or pale pinkish. Style arching over stamens, dividing near apex of anthers, branches ± 3.5 mm long. Capsules obovoid, 9-11 mm long. Seeds angular with pronounced proximal and distal ridges, 5-6 x 1.5 mm.