Agathosma spinosa Sond.

Branchlets pubescent. Leaves mostly 4-6 mm long, alternate, spreading or somewhat recurved, widely ovate, rounded at the base, terminating in a long, sharp and usually straight mucro, slightly concave and smooth above, distinctly thickened, cartilaginous and pale at the margin, ecarinate, with scattered glands beneath, glabrous, or minutely puberulous on the margin. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 2-2.5 mm long, pubescent, ebracteolate. Sepals 2-3 mm long, ovate, tapering to a pungent apex, ciliolate, obtusely keeled, often pubescent beneath at the base, with a few glands near the keel. Petals 4-5 mm long, elliptic or obovate, very obtuse and cucullate at the apex, cuneate at the base, puberulous above in the lower half. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 2-2.5 mm long, narrowly oblanceolate-linear, truncate, concave and pubescent above, glabrous or almost so beneath, with a conspicuous narrowly conical gland behind the apex. Ovary pubescent, with 2 carpels bearing obovate puberulous processes. Style glabrous. Fruit pubescent, with horizontal ridges, raised glands and linear-oblong emarginate processes.