Perennial, acaulescent herb with bulbous root stock, bulb scales few, fleshy, 3 nerved; leaves erect, petioles long with dilated base, leaflets subsessile, orbicular, cuneate base, deeply notched apex, appressed hairy beneath; flowers 2-many in sub-umbellate corymbs; peduncles long, hairy; pedicels long; sepals elliptic, margins hyaline, 2 orange dots at apices; petals violet with dark purple or green streaks, hairy outside; stamens biseriate, free or united at base; ovary 5-celled, glabrous, ovules 1 or more in each locule, styles 5, distinct, 5+5, hairy, stigma capitate, papilose, terminal; capsule loculicidal, ovoid; seeds many with outer, fleshy coat which burst elastically.