bulb ovoid, 2 in. diam.; tunics brown, scariose; leaves 3–4, contemporary with the flowers, lanceolate, acute, bright green, a foot long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad at the middle, narrowed to the apex, and with a distinct petiole 3–4 in. long; peduncle slender, terete, pale green, 6–9 in. long; flowers 1–3 in an umbel, scentless; pedicels 1/2–2 in. long; spathe-valves 2–4, lanceolate, green, 2–3 in. long; perianth 3–4 1/2 in. long, bright red; tube suberect or decidedly curved, subcylindrical in the lower half, dilated in the upper half to a throat an inch in diameter; segments ovate, falcate or rather revolute, 1–2 in. long; stamens uniseriate, exserted a little from the throat of the perianth-tube; filaments arcuate, incurved, 1/2 in. long; anthers small, oblong; ovary oblong-trigonous, 1/8– 1/6 in. diam.; style overtopping the anthers; stigmas 3, falcate, 1/4 in. long. null
