Agathosma trichocarpa Holmes

A low shrub with pubescent or pilose branchlets. Leaves 4-5 mm long, alternate, spreading or reflexed, slightly recurved, lanceolate, acute or subacute, rounded at the base, slightly concave above, pilose-ciliate, often with marginal stalked glands, with a prominent often pilose nerve beneath, with glands-confined to the nerve and margin. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 5-6 mm long, with stalked glands, bracteolate on the lower half. Sepals 1.5 mm long, widely ovate, subacute, ciliolate, rounded and with stalked glands beneath. Petals 4 mm long, glabrous; blade elliptic-oblong, very obtuse; claw scarcely half as long, linear. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 2.75-3 mm long, lanceolate in the upper half, tapering from the middle to the base, ciliate except near the base and apex, gland-tipped. Ovary with many stalked glands, with 3 carpels bearing oblong processes pilose at the apex. Style glabrous.