Agathosma stipitata Pillans

A much branched shrub usually 60-70 cm high, with slender puberulous branchlets. Leaves 2-4.5 mm long, alternate, sometimes opposite or ternate, erect-spreading, spreading or reflexed, cordate or widely ovate and widely rounded or subcordate at the base, obtuse, convex and minutely puberulous above and beneath or glabrous, revolute at the margin, crenulate, with conspicuous marginal glands, indistinctly veined beneath. Flowers solitary, axillary. Peduncles 3-4 mm long, glabrous, subtended by elliptic ciliolate bracteoles. Sepals 1.5 mm long, widely ovate, obtuse, almost flat, minutely ciliolate, with conspicuous glands beneath. Petals 4.5 mm long, ovate, obtuse, cuneate and ciliolate at the base, slightly concave above. Stamens with filaments much recurved, pubescent above in the lower half. Staminodes 3-3.5 mm long, linear-oblong, tipped with a large gland, concave and sparsely pubescent above. Disk crenulate. Ovary glabrous, conspicuously studded with raised glands, with 5 carpels bearing transversely oblong processes with a depression at the apex, with uneven marginal teeth and a gland in the centre. Style glabrous. Fruit very distinctly stipitate, entirely covered with prominent glands.