Agathosma acocksii Pillans

A shrublet with slender puberulous branchlets having shortly stalked glands scattered on the younger parts. Leaves 4-8 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading or spreading, oblanceolate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, rounded at the base, convex and furrowed above, ± revolute at the margin, with a much enlarged prominent nerve beneath, scabrid and minutely hispid above and beneath, often with small stalked glands beneath. Flowers in terminal clusters, usually 3 or 4 together. Peduncles 0.7-1 cm long, pilose, sometimes with stalked glands, without bracteoles. Sepals 4-4.5 mm long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, flattened, slightly concave towards the apex, glabrous above, pubescent and sometimes with stalked glands beneath. Petals 4.5-6 mm long, widely ovate, oblong-ovate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, cuneate and puberulous above at the base, often very sparsely puberulous beneath, ciliate on the lower half. Stamens with filaments sparsely ciliate on the lower half. Staminodes 2 mm long, oblong-fusiform in outline, acute, widely based, concave above, pubescent beneath, with a long-stalked apical gland. Ovary tubercled, with 5 carpels without processes. Style pilose except towards the apex. Fruit with hispid gland-tipped tubercles.