B. elandsmontana Snijman: plants up to 200 mm high; bulb 40 mm diam. Leaves dry at flowering, 4-6, pressed to the ground, elliptical, 25-70 mm wide; margins pink, crisped. Flowers 6-18, in a compact head; tepals 15-20 mm long; stamens and style nearly straight, almost equalling the tepals. Capsule 10-25 mm long, 3-angled, thinly ribbed. Flowering March to May. In lowland fynbos and renosterveld, in pebbly soils. (W Cape: Elandsberg Private Nature Reserve).

B. marginata (Jacq.) Aiton: plants up to 200 mm high; bulb ± 60 mm diam. Leaves dry at flowering, 4, pressed to the ground, elliptical, 40-100 mm wide, leathery. Flowers 10-20, in a compact, hemispherical head, red or rarely dark pink; pedicels elongating in fruit; tepals 20-30 mm long; stamens well exserted. Capsule 20-25 mm long, 3-angled, thinly ribbed. Flowering March to June. Mountain slopes, in rocky shale bands. (W Cape: Citrusdal, Tulbagh, Paarl, Worcester).