Agathosma roodebergensis Compton

A laxly branched shrub about 70 cm high, with glandulose and puberulous branchlets. Leaves 3-4 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading, ovate or lanceolate-ovate, obtuse, somewhat incurved, slightly concave and minutely papillate-scabrid above, convex and papillate-scabrid beneath, obtusely keeled in the upper half, with many scattered glands. Flowers in clusters at the forking of the stems, or in lateral, rarely terminal, clusters. Peduncles 3-3.5 mm long, glandulose and puberulous, with filiform bracteoles at the middle. Sepals 1-1.5 mm long, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, densely ciliate, obtusely keeled, glandulose and puberulous, with filiform bracteoles at the middle. Sepals 1-1.5 mm long, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, densely ciliate, obtusely keeled, glandulose and puberulous. Petals 5 mm long; blade oblong-obovate, very obtuse, glabrous; claw almost as long, linear, ciliate. Stamens with very sparsely pilose filaments. Staminodes 3 mm long, linear-lanceolate, tipped with a conspicuous gland, tapering to a very slender base, pilose above and beneath at the middle, ciliate upwards. Disk with the margin incurved upon the ovary. Ovary glabrous, with 3 carpels bearing rotund processes. Style glabrous.