Agathosma insignis (Compton) Pillans

A robust shrub usually 120-130 cm high, entirely glabrous. Branchlets red-brown, ridged below the petioles. Leaves mostly 2.5-3.5 cm long, alternate, erect-spreading, oblanceolate-elliptic or narrowly obovate, acute or subacute, very often apiculate, rounded at the base, slightly convex above, slightly thickened at the margin, obscurely crenulate or entire, with a conspicuous primary and several secondary nerves beneath, with marginal glands mostly 15-18 at each side, and with scattered glands evident above and beneath. Flowers 1-3 together at the ends of short axillary branchlets bearing much reduced leaves. Peduncles 5-8 mm long, subtended by lanceolate bracteoles. Sepals 3 mm. long, widely ovate, acute, obtusely convex behind the apex. Petals 1-1.5 cm long, ovate-lanceolate, tipped with a small gland, with a subquadrate basal claw, slightly concave above, with several conspicuous glands about the middle. Stamens with stout filaments. Staminodes 4 mm long, linear-lanceolate, tipped with a large conical gland, fleshy, slightly concave above. Disk fleshy, crenulate. Ovary with 5 carpels bearing obovate fleshy processes with the margin increasingly incurved from the middle to the base, so as to resemble an inverted equine hoof. Style glabrous.