Aloe dewetii Reynolds

Plant succulent, acaulescent, solitary, not stoloniferous. Leaves about 20 in a dense rosette, erectly-spreading, lanceolate-attenuate, up to 48 cm long, 13 cm broad at base; upper surface slightly canaliculate, dull green, with numerous dull white spots throughout, the spots elongate, irregularly scattered or sometimes arranged more or less into a series of irregular undulating transverse bands; lower surface convex, immaculate, obscurely lineate; margins sinuate-dentate with a most pronounced heavy corneous brown edge, armed with deltoid pungent stout brown teeth up to 10 mm long, 10-15 mm distant. (Note: The leaves have a peculiar dull glossy appearance, as if rubbed with an oily cloth.) Inflorescence a branched panicle up to 2 met. high, and more in large specimens. Peduncle about 5 cm diam. low down, brownish, covered with a greyish powdery substance, about 10-branched from about the middle, the lowest branches with 1-4 branchlets producing a total of 15-25 racemes, the lowest branch subtended at base by a rather fleshy bract up to 9 cm long, 3 cm broad, with a few marginal teeth near apex. Racemes the terminal the highest, cylindric-acuminate, up to 40 cm long, 7 cm diam., lateral racemes shorter. Bracts narrowly deltoid, 20 mm long, 3 mm broad at base, thin scarious brownish, 7-9-nerved. Pedicels the lowest of terminal racemes up to 15 mm long. Perianth dull scarlet with a bloom, 35-42 mm long, with a basal swelling up to 14 mm diam., constricted to 6-7 mm above the ovary, thence slightly decurved and enlarging towards the throat, the mouth distinctly trigonous; outer segments free for 6 mm obscurely 5-nerved, with pale margins, the apices sub-acute brownish; inner segments broader than the outer, the apices more obtuse. Filaments white, much flattened, the 3 inner narrower and lengthening in advance of the 3 outer. Anthers scarcely exserted. Stigma at length exserted 1-2 mm. Ovary green, 10 mm long, 4 mm diam., finely 6-grooved. Capsule 30 mm long, 16 mm diam., for some time enwrapped with the remains of the dry perianth. Usually flowers late February-early March.

It is a subtropical plant.