Agathosma distans Pillans

Shrubs about 70 cm high, entirely glabrous. Leaves mostly 2-2.5 cm long, alternate or opposite, erect-spreading, elliptic-or obovate-oblong, tapering shortly to a mucro, widely cuneate at the base, slightly concave above, usually very slightly crenulate at the margin, conspicuously nerved beneath, with small scattered and larger marginal glands mostly 5-11 on each side. Flowers solitary at the ends of very short axillary leafless branchlets. Peduncles 2-5 mm long, subtended by lanceolate bracteoles. Sepals 2 mm long, ovate, acute, membranous at the margin, obtusely convex beneath. Petals 6.5 mm long, obovate, recurved and acutely cuspidate at the apex, attenuate towards the base, slightly concave above, distinctly nerved beneath. Stamens much recurved. Staminodes 3.25 mm long, lanceolate, concave above, terminating in a large rotund gland. Disk fleshy, crenulate. Ovary with 5 carpels bearing transversely obovate processes with closely involute margins and resembling an inverted equine hoof.