corm globose, 1/2–1 in. diam., with parallel, brown, wiry strands, and a crown of long bristles; stem simple, wiry, flexuose, 1–2 ft. long, with one long, wiry terete leaf low down, and two or three others higher up, short and rudimentary; spathe cylindrical, 2–2 1/2 in. long, 3–4-flowered; valves rigid, pale green, obtuse; outer short; perianth bright yellow, fugacious, 1 1/2 in. long; outer segments oblong-unguiculate, 1/2 in. broad; inner nearly as long, oblanceolate; filaments united towards the base; ovary clavate, 1/2 in. long; style-crests lanceolate, 1/2 in. long; capsule oblong, an inch long. null
