Agathosma alpina Schltr.

Branchlets glabrous, puberulous or pilose. Leaves 3-8 mm long, alternate, appressed, ascending or erect-spreading, sometimes imbricate, oblanceolate-or obovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong, oblong or obovate, obtuse, rounded at the base, concave above, rounded and conspicuously gland-punctate beneath, at first pilose-ciliate and pilose beneath, usually becoming glabrous. Flowers in dense terminal clusters. Peduncles 1.25-3 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pilose, with ovate or oblong bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 2-2.5 mm long, elliptic, obovate-or rotund-elliptic, oblong or ovate, obtuse or subtruncate, concave and glabrous or pubescent above, sometimes hyaline at the margin or partly ciliate with hairs or stalked glands, sometimes slightly keeled and pubescent behind the apex. Petals 3.75-6 mm long; blade obovate, very obtuse, glabrous; claw half as long, slender, glabrous, or ciliate near the base. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 3-3.75 mm long, linear, linear-oblong or linear-obovate in the upper half, truncate or obtuse, tapering in the lower half, pilose at the middle, often with marginal stalked glands near the base, with a conspicuous gland behind the apex. Ovary tubercled, with 3 carpels bearing oblong or obovate pilose processes. Style for the most part pilose.