corm small, globose; tunics brown, membranous; basal leaves 3–4, linear, rigid in texture, the lowest the longest, 1/2–1 ft. long, 1/6– 1/4 in. broad, closely and strongly ribbed; stem 1/2–1 ft. long including the inflorescence; spike usually simple, few-flowered, very lax, with a very flexuose axis; spathe-valves broad, green, oblong-navicular, the outer 1–1 1/4 in. long; perianth pink; tube 1/2 in. long, funnel-shaped at the top; upper segment cucullate, obovate, cuneate, with a short claw, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad; side ones shorter, suborbicular, not unguiculate; 3 lower deflexed, with a small obovate blade and a long distinct claw; stamens reaching nearly to the tip of the upper segments; anthers lanceolate, 1/3 in. long. null
