Plants with bulbs. Leaves thick and glossy, persistent. Flowers in a compact umbel, subtended by green spathe-valves. 3 outer perianth segments narrower than inner. Corona 0. Ovules few, 5-6, in each loculus. Fruit a red berry with large spherical seeds. Derivation of name: after Lady Charlotte Clive, wife of Robert Clive of India Worldwide: 4 species in South Africa Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |