Origin and Habitat: Extends to Angola, Welwitsch and the mountains round Lake Nyassa, Thomson and Lake Tanganyika, Cameron.

• Boophone ciliaris Herb.
• Amaryllis ciliaris L.
• Boophane ciliaris Herb.
• Brunsvigia ciliaris (L.) Ker Gawl.
• Buphane ciliaris Herb.
• Haemanthus ciliaris L.

• Boophone disticha Herb.
• Amaryllis disticha L.f.
• Boophane disticha Herb.
• Brunsvigia disticha (L.f.) Sweet
• Buphane disticha Herb.
• Haemanthus distichus (L.f.) L.f. ex Savage
• Boophone ciliaris Herb.
• Amaryllis ciliaris L.
• Boophane ciliaris Herb.
• Brunsvigia ciliaris (L.) Ker Gawl.
• Buphane ciliaris Herb.
• Haemanthus ciliaris L.
• Boophone intermedia M.Roem.
• Boophane intermedia M.Roem.
• Buphane intermedia M.Roem.
• Boophone longepedicellata Pax
• Boophane longepedicellata Pax
• Boophone toxicaria (L.f. ex Aiton) Herb.
• Amaryllis toxicaria (L.f. ex Aiton) D.Dietr.
• Boophane toxicaria (L.f. ex Aiton) Herb.
• Brunsvigia toxicaria (L.f. ex Aiton) Ker Gawl.
• Haemanthus toxicarius L.f. ex Aiton
• Brunsvigia rautanenii Baker
• Haemanthus lemairei De Wild.
• Haemanthus robustus Pax
• Haemanthus sinuatus Thunb. ex Schult. & Schult.f.

Description: Bulb: Subglobose, 15-20. diam., with many hundreds of tunics, the outer brown and firm in texture.
Leaves: 8 to 16, ensiform, distichous, erect, coriaceous, glaucous, closely ribbed, narrowed gradually to the point, finally up to 50 cm. long, 2,5 to 6 cm broad, hairy on the margin, not ciliated, often much undulated; peduncle stout, ancipitous, glaucous, 1/2–1 ft. long;
Flowers: Very numerous, pink to bright red, arranged in a dense umbel.
Fruit: the fruit is a capsule turbinate, 2 cm in. long, 1-15 cm diam.