Descr. Bulbs long, narrow, densely crowded, seated on — 
a thread-like remotely bulbilliferous rootstock; outer 
tunics composed of a dense mass of fibres. Leaves three 
to five to a stem, all arising close together from near the 
ground, narrow linear, much shorter than the scape, deeply 
channelled down the face. Scape slender, wiry, terete, 
about a foot long. Flowers many, crowded into a dense 
globose head; spathe small, ovate, membranous, falling 
when the flowers expand; pedicels shorter than the 
flowers. Perianth permanently campanulate, bright blue, 
one-sixth of an inch long; segments oblong, obtuse. 
Stamens shorter than the perianth; filaments, especially 
the outer three, dilated with an obscurely tricuspidate 
appendage at the base; anthers small, oblong. Ovary 
globose, glabrous; style shorter than the ovary.—J. G. 
Baker. 
Fig. 1, A flower; 2, vertical section of a flower, shading stamens ; 3, pistil: 
—all enlarged. 
