Aloidendron ramosissimum (Pillans) Klopper & Gideon F.sm.

Plants shrubby, 2 met. (sometimes 3 met.) high, and about as broad, copiously and dichotomously branched from ground level; branches ascending or diverging, freely rebranched, about 8 cm thick on the lower parts of the plant, about 2 cm thick on the upper, leafless except at the apices, smooth, and covered with waxy grey powder. Leaves 10-14 in a dense capitate rosette (the rosettes up to 25 cm diam.) lanceolate-linear, usually spreading-decurved, averaging 15-20 cm long, 22 mm broad at base, about 7 mm thick; upper surface flat or slightly canaliculate, glaucous-green; lower surface convex, glaucous-green; margins with a very narrow pale yellow sub-cartilaginous edge, armed with minute, corneous, pale brownish teeth about 1 mm long, 1-4 mm distant. Inflorescence 15-20 cm long, with 1-2 lateral branches from near base. Racemes cylindric, sub-laxly about 20-flowered, the terminal 12-15 cm long, the lateral usually shorter, the buds and flowers canary-yellow to greenish-yellow, more or less horizontally disposed. Peduncle flattened and 12 mm broad at base, about 3 cm from base to the first branch, usually with 2 branches, the 3 racemes more or less in the same plane; branches subtended at base by a thin, scarious, acuminate bract about 4 mm long, 3 mm broad, 3-nerved. Bracts deltoid-acuminate, membranous, thin, scarious, white, 4-5 mm long, 3 mm broad, 1-nerved. Pedicels erectly spreading, green, 8 mm long. Perianth greenish-yellow to canary-yellow, cylindric-ventricose, averaging 35 mm long, the mouth slightly upturned; outer segments free for 25 mm (tube 10 mm), about 10 mm broad at the middle, with several obscure nerves, the apices sub-acute, slightly spreading; inner segments free to base, slightly longer than the outer, white, with thin edges, and with 3 congested greenish nerves in median line forming a slight keel, the apices more obtuse, more spreading. Filaments flattened, the 3 inner narrower and lengthening in advance of the 3 outer, pale within the perianth, the 12 mm exserted portion brownish-orange. Anthers the 3 inner and 3 outer in turn exserted 12 mm Style pale lemon, with the stigma at length exserted 12 mm. Ovary elliptical, 6 mm long, 4 mm diam. Capsule 30 mm long, 18 mm diam. at the middle, obtusely 3-angled, green, for a long time enwrapped with the dried remains of the perianth.