Watsonia strictiflora Ker Gawl.

Plants 250-400 mm high. Corm subglobose, 20-30 mm diam.; tunics coarsely netted. Stem erect, simple or 1 or 2 short, ascending branches. Leaves 5 to 7, mostly ± basal with uppermost partly sheathing stems below, ± half as long as spike, narrowly lanceolate, up to 16 mm wide, midrib and margins lightly thickened and hyaline; bract-like cauline leaf 1. Spike 4-to 10-flowered; bracts overlapping, green, becoming dry at brown apically at flowering, (15-)20-25(-33) mm long, inner somewhat shorter, acute or minutely forked apically. Flowers zygomorphic, rose-pink with dark maroon star-shaped marking in centre; perianth tube slender and weakly funnel-shaped, lower part 20-35 mm long, upper part flaring slightly and nearly horizontal, 8-14 mm long, ± 6 mm diam. at mouth; tepals spreading, obovate, 22-25 x 11-15 mm. Filaments unilateral and declinate, 13-15 mm long, recurved apically; anthers 8-10 mm long, dark purple. Style arching below stamens, dividing between middle and upper half of anthers, branches 4-5 mm long. Capsules ovoid, 14-20 x 6-9 mm. Seeds 4-5 mm long, 2-winged.