Agathosma lanceolata (L.) Engl.

A low much branched shrub, often with spreading branches. Branchlets puberulous or shortly pubescent. Leaves mostly 4-6 mm long, alternate, spreading, often slightly recurved, oblong-elliptic, elliptic, ovate or subrotund, very obtuse, rounded at the base, slightly convex or flat above, dorsally compressed, ecarinate, with a few scattered glands beneath, thickened and with a row of glands at the margin, sometimes with long hairs arising on the marginal glands. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 5-6 mm long, glabrous, with oblong-lanceolate obtuse bracteoles near the base. Sepals 1.5 mm long, ovate, obtuse, membranous at the margin, glabrous, concave above, obtusely keeled, with scattered glands beneath. Petals 4-4.5 mm long, glabrous or sparsely ciliate near the base; blade elliptic or ovate-or obovate-elliptic, very obtuse, subcucullate at the apex; claw half as long, linear-oblong. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 4 mm long, oblanceolate-oblong in the upper half, obtuse, linear and pilose-ciliate in the lower half, with a gland behind the apex. Ovary glabrous, with 3 carpels bearing rotund processes. Style glabrous.