Stem up to 1.5 met. in old specimens, simple or branched low down or higher, usually with old dry leaves persistent. Leaves 30-40, densely rosulate, lanceolate-acuminate, mostly averaging 30 cm, long, 7 cm broad, but reaching 40 cm long, 9 cm broad in the largest specimens, usually ascending and forming a rather compact rosette, sometimes spreading; upper surface dull to bright green, not glaucous, distinctly lineate, flat low down, slightly canaliculate near apex; lower surface bright green, distinctly lineate, convex; margins with a reddish-brown horny edge armed with pungent deltoid reddish-brown teeth 4-6 mm long, 5-15 mm distant, smaller and more crowded low down, longer and more distant upwards. Inflorescence simple, 75 cm.-1 met. high, 1-4 from a rosette, simultaneous or consecutive. Peduncle clothed with numerous lanceolate-acute many-nerved thin scarious brownish-white spreading sterile bracts up to 25 mm, long, 12 mm broad at base. Raceme somewhat conic, 20-30 cm long, the buds densely congested and hidden by their longer fleshy bracts, the open flowers laxer, sub-pendulous. Bracts the lowest broadly deltoid-acute, thin, sub-scarious, whitish, about 20 mm long; with many dull reddish-brown nerves confluent at apex. Pedicels 40 mm, longer in the fruit. Perianth salmon pink, 45-50 mm long, somewhat cylindric-trigonous, 9 mm diam. near base, very slightly constricted above the ovary to 8 mm, broadening to 11 mm higher up, slightly narrowing to the throat; outer segments free to base or almost so, about 8 mm broad at widest part, with about 12 obscure nerves confluent at apex, apices sub-acute slightly spreading; inner segments free to base, not cohering to the outer, about 10 mm broad at widest part, with a distinct keel the colour of the perianth turning green at apex, apices spreading. Filaments the 3 outer about 2 mm broad, twice as broad as the 3 inner which lengthen first, all pale lemon coloured. Anthers exserted 1-3 mm Style distinctly more yellow than the filaments, with the stigma at length exserted 4 mm and remaining exserted after pollination and after the filaments dry and contract, Ovary 8 mm long, 3 mm diam. at base, narrowing to 2 mm at apex, finely 6-grooved, green. Capsule 27 mm long, 7-5 mm diam. at middle, usually more or less enwrapped with the remains of the dried perianth.
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Plants few-stemmed, stems up to 1.5 m tall in old specimens. Leaves 30-40 per rosette, lanceolate, 200-400 x 40-90 mm, upper surface flat to slightly channelled, lower surface convex, distinctly lineate, dull to bright green, margins sometimes brown and cartilaginous between teeth. Inflorescence a simple raceme up to 1.2 m tall; peduncle 0.75-1 m long; bracts oblanceolate, 20-27 x 6-8 mm, many-nerved. Flowers salmon-pink to deep rose-pink, 32-50 mm long, cylindric-trigonous; all segments free or almost so; pedicels 20-40 mm long, lengthening in fruit. Anthers exserted 1-3 mm. Ovary 6-8 x 2-3 mm, green; style exserted 4-8 mm. Fruit 20-27 x 7.5-10.0 mm, buff.
Succulent, perennial, tree-like shrub. Stem up to 1.5 m high, simple or branched low down, usually covered in persistent dried leaves. Leaves dull to bright green, or bright yellowish green to orange-green, not glaucous, distinctly lineate, lanceolate-acuminate, ± 0.3 m long, margins reddish brown, horny, with pungent, deltoid, reddish brown teeth. Inflorescences 1-4, simple, erect, 0.75-1.00 m high, with conical, subdense racemes. Flowers salmon-pink, 45-50 mm long; stamens and stigma well exserted. Flowering time Jan.-Mar., June-Nov.
Succulent shrub to 1.5 m, simple or branching below, usually covered in persistent dried leaves. Leaves dull to bright green, or bright yellowish green to orange-green, not glaucous, distinctly lineate, lanceolate-acuminate, ± 30 cm long; margin reddish brown, horny, with pungent, deltoid, reddish brown teeth. Racemes conical, ± dense, simple, 75-100 cm high. Flowers salmon-pink, 45-50 mm long; stamens and stigma well exserted.
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