Agathosma rubricaulis Dümmer

A much branched shrub about 1 m high, with pubescent, often reddish, branchlets. Leaves 3-4 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading, ovate, subacute, rounded at the base, slightly incurved at the apex, slightly concave and sometimes puberulous above, gland-crenate, slightly convex, rugulose and pubescent beneath, with large glands confined to the margin. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous, subtended by bracteoles. Sepals 2.25 mm long, linear-lanceolate, subacute, concave above, slightly keeled beneath, ciliate near the base, or glabrous, with a conspicuous gland behind the apex. Petals 3-5 mm long; blade obovate-elliptic, very obtuse; claw almost as long, slender, ciliate near the base. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 2.5-2.75 mm long, slender, widening upwards into an oblanceolate blade, ciliate on the lower half, with a large gland behind the apex. Disk readily splitting into 5 emarginate segments. Ovary with 5 or rarely 4 carpels bearing rounded hispid processes. Style pubescent except near the base and apex.