Cormous geophyte up to 20cm, branching near the base. Leaves several, linear-lanceolate, channelled, sub-erect, margins undulate, sometimes crisped. Flowers white, sometimes blue, the outer tepals with yellow nectar guides, outer tepals larger 20mm long, inner tepals erect.

After: Mrs. Emily Pauline Reitz Ferguson, born 1872, plant collector from Riversdale, South Africa, who collected in the Riversdale and Swellendam areas.