bulb ovoid, 1 1/2 in. diam.; leaves 3, produced with the flowers, linear, glaucous, weak in texture, not twisted, 6–9 in. long, 1/6– 1/4 in. broad; peduncle slender, subterete, glaucous, about a foot long; flowers 6–10 in an umbel, bright scarlet, inodorous; pedicels slender, suberect, 1/2–1 in. long; spathe-valves 2, lanceolate, about an inch long; perianth bright red, 1 1/2–2 in. long; tube curved, very slender in the lower half, dilated gradually to a throat 1/4 in. diam.; segments oblong, obtuse, 1/3 in. long; stamens almost uniseriate at the throat of the perianth-tube; filaments under 1/12 in. long; anthers small, oblong; style reaching halfway up the perianth-segments; stigma tricuspidate. null
