Agathosma aemula Schltr.

Branchlets glabrous or rarely villous. Leaves usually 4-6 mm long, alternate, ascending, linear, subacute, tapering at the base, concave above, glabrous or sometimes villous, rounded-convex and with many glands beneath. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 0.5-1.5 mm long, glabrous or puberulous, with slender puberulous bracteoles at or near the apex. Sepals 1.5-2.5 mm long, ovate-or oblong-lanceolate, or oblong-linear, obtuse, membranous at the margin, ciliate, sometimes sparsely pilose above, widely convex and with 2 rows of glands beneath. Petals 4-6 mm long, spathulate, very obtuse, often retuse, glabrous or sparsely pilose on the very slender basal part. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 2.5-3.5 mm long, linear-spathulate, pilose on the lower half. Ovary glabrous, or pilose on the upper half, with 3 carpels bearing oblong-or linear-clavate processes. Style pilose except towards the apex.