Stems slender, under a foot long, branched below the middle, bearing 4 clusters of flowers on long ascending peduncles. Stem-leaves linear, distantly superposed, the longest 3–4 in. long. Spathes cylindrical, 1 1/2 in. long; outer valve shorter than the next. Flowers bright yellow; segments subequal, 1 in. long, with a spreading panduriform acute blade, copiously blotched with brown up to the tip, longer than the broad claw. Staminal column shorter than the claw; anthers oblong, just overtopped by bifid laciniated tips of the style-branches.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Welwitsch.
Notes
Described from a drawing of a plant that flowered in the garden of Mr. Wilson Saunders at Reigate in July 1871, the corm of which was sent to him by Dr. Welwitsch.
