Agathosma hirta Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.

Branchlets puberulous or pubescent, with prominent leaf-bases. Leaves 0.4-1.5 cm long, alternate, ascending or erect-spreading, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, acute or acuminate, rounded or subcuneate at the base, concave above, usually pilose-ciliate, rounded and often keeled beneath on the upper half, with scattered glands and ± pubescent or pilose beneath, or entirely glabrous, sometimes tuberculate-scabrid. Flowers in terminal clusters and in the axils of the uppermost reduced leaves. Peduncles 2-4 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pilose, with bracteoles at or shortly below the middle. Sepals 1.5-2 mm long, ovate-or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, pilose-ciliate, convex beneath, conspicuously keeled down to the peduncle, sometimes scabrid and with short glandular hairs. Petals 4.5-5 mm long; blade obovate or elliptic, obtuse, concave above, sometimes almost cucullate at the apex; claw two thirds or almost as long, linear or subfiliform, ciliate. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 3.5-5 mm long, linear, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, with a gland behind the apex, tapering to a slender base, villous at the middle, ciliate below. Ovary setose on the apex, or glabrous, with 3 carpels bearing obovate or rotund processes. Style glabrous.