Agathosma subteretifolia Pillans

A much branched shrub about 40 cm high with slender minutely puberulous branchlets. Leaves mostly 1-1.2 cm long, ternate, alternate or opposite, erect-spreading, linear, acute, rounded at the base, subterete, with a tightly revolute margin completely covering the lower face, at first puberulous, with a row of conspicuous glands near the margin. Flowers axillary, solitary. Peduncles 2 mm long, puberulous, subtended by ovate-lanceolate bracteoles. Sepals 5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, ciliate, densely puberulous and with a raised nerve beneath. Petals 8-9 mm long, oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, tapering slightly to a rounded base, concave above, ciliolate on the lower half, sparsely pilose-ciliate on the upper half, with a gland behind the apex and a raised nerve beneath. Stamens with wide-based filaments dorsally compressed and pubescent in the lower half. Staminodes 2.5 mm long, oblong, very obtuse, emarginate, with a gland in the sinus, concave above, slightly recurved at the apex, very sparsely pubescent above, pilose ciliate. Disk inconspicuous, scarcely crenulate. Ovary pubescent on the upper half, with 5 carpels bearing pubescent processes orbicular and expanded in the upper half, with a closely involute margin forming a funnel in the lower half. Style sparsely pubescent on the lower half.