Corm globose, 3/4 in. diam; tunics of fine parallel fibres. Produced leaves 6–8 in a rosette, linear, thin, erect, glabrous, 1/2–1 ft. long, 1/4– 1/2 in. broad. Peduncle 1 ft. long, terete, simple or once forked; flowers 3–6 in a lax spike; outer spathe-valve lanceolate, submembranous, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, much exceeding the inner. Perianth bright scarlet; tube cylindrical, erect, 1 in. long; segments oblanceolate, obtuse, as long as the tube, the three lower with a dark blotch. Stamen and style as long as the perianth-segments. Capsule globose, 1/3 in. diam.