Agathosma virgata Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.

A usually laxly branched shrub about 1 m high. Branchlets glabrous, or sometimes pubescent on strips alternating with the leaf-bases. Leaves 3-8 mm long, alternate, ascending, often subimbricate, linear or lanceolate-linear, acute, acuminate, subacute or obtuse, tapering shortly or rounded at the base, concave above, ± keeled beneath on the upper half, glabrous, or sometimes ciliate on the lower half. Flowers in terminal clusters, or the lower axillary. Peduncles usually 5-6 mm long, glabrous or sometimes pubescent, often purplish, with slender, sometimes vestigial, bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 0.75-1.5 mm long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, concave above, obtusely keeled, glabrous. Petals 4-6 mm long; blade elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse; claw half as long or slightly longer, narrowly linear or subfiliform, ± pilose-ciliate on the lower half. Stamens glabrous or sparsely pubescent on the filaments. Staminodes 4-5.75 mm long, petaloid, oblong, linear or oblanceolate in the upper half, obtuse or rarely acute, narrowly linear or subfiliform and villous in the lower half, with a conspicuous gland behind the apex. Disk crenulate. Ovary glabrous, with 2 or, very rarely, 3-carpels bearing oblong or obovate processes. Style glabrous or very sparsely pubescent on the lower half.