Aloe verecunda Pole-evans

Description (based on the original description, and on flowering plants along the Linksfield and Houghton Ridges, and hills near Parkview, Johannesburg): Plants small, succulent, with fusiform roots, sometimes solitary, usually in tufted groups. Stem none, or 10-20 cm long, about 20 mm diam. Leaves 8-10 usually distichous, sometimes spirally twisted to sub-rosulate, narrowly linear, 25-35 cm long, 8-10 mm broad; upper surface distinctly channelled, dull green; tower surface convex, with numerous small raised white spots near base; margins armed with soft white teeth, 2-7 mm distant. Peduncle stout, about 25 cm long, clothed with several broad ovate shortly cuspidate sterile bracts. Racemes capitate, rather densely flowered. Bracts 20 mm long, 15 mm broad at base, ovate, acute, obscurely nerved. Pedicels the lowest 25-30 mm long. Perianth rich peach-red to scarlet, greenish tipped, 26-30 mm long, 12 mm diam., straight, markedly trigonal, contracted towards the mouth; outer segments free, with 3-5 greenish nerves confluent at apex, the apices sub-acute slightly spreading. Anthers exserted 2-3 mm Stigma at length exserted up to 10 mm.