Agathosma abrupta Pillans

A much branched shrublet. Branchlets pubescent, rough with small glands. Leaves 3-4 mm long, alternate, spreading and slightly recurved, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, rounded or subcordate at the base, concave above or slightly concave up the middle, pilose-ciliate, with a row of glands at the margin and a few scattered beneath, with a scarcely raised nerve. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 3-4 mm long, glabrous, with linear ciliate bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 1 mm long, oblong-ovate, obtuse, membranous at the margin, densely ciliate, obtusely keeled. Petals 3 mm long; blade obovate, very obtuse; claw half as long, narrowly cuneate, ciliolate. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 1.75 mm long, deltoid-lanceolate and slightly concave in the upper half, obtuse; abruptly becoming very narrowly linear in the lower half, pubescent beneath and ciliate at the widest part, ciliolate immediately below the middle, with a distinctly terminal gland. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, with 2 carpels bearing oblong glabrous processes. Style glabrous.