Compilation
Cyrtanthus tuckii

bulb ovoid, 1 1/2 in. diam., with tunics produced some distance above its top; leaves 2, contemporary with the flowers, linear, erect, straight, green, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. broad; peduncle 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. diam.; flowers 10–12 in an umbel; pedicels slender, cernuous or suberect, 1–2 1/2 in. long; spathe-valves 2, lanceolate, green, 3–3 1/2 in. long; perianth 1 1/2–2 in. long, yellowish at the base, passing gradually upwards into deep blood-red; tube curved, dilated gradually from the base to a throat 1/3 in. diam.; segments oblong, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, persistently connivent; stamens biseriate, the three lower not exserted from the perianth-tube; filaments as long as the anthers; ovary oblong, 1/8 in. diam.; style just overtopping the anthers; stigma tricuspidate. null