Diosma sabulosa I.Williams

Shrubs about 1 m tall, erect, arising from a single stem at base. Branches erect, fairly slender, glabrescent, alternate; bark rough with leaf scars. Branchlets erect, short, slender, white-puberulous, leafy. Leaves 3-4 mm long, 2.5-3 mm broad, 5-ranked, alternate, spreading, glabrous, sessile, ovate, acute, mucronulate, margins narrowly cartilaginous irregularly serrulate above and setulose below, adaxial surface flat, abaxial surface with gland-dots scattered mainly towards the prominent midrib. Inflorescence terminal, a very much reduced raceme; flowers few, crowded, sessile, puberulous below. Bract 2.5-2.8 mm long, 0.8-1.4 mm broad, glabrous, sessile, lanceolate or narrowly ovate, acute, mucronulate, margins narrowly cartilagenous, ciliolate. Bracteoles two, 1.4 mm long, 0.6 mm broad, narrowly deltoid, acute, glabrous, keeled, sub-ciliolate, with 1 or 2 gland-dots. Calyx lobes five, 1.6 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, ovate, acute, glabrous, spreading, mucronulate, margins translucent, ciliolate, with 1 or 2 gland-dots. Petals five, 2.5 mm long, 1.7 mm broad, obovate, sessile, spreading, white, sub-ciliolate at the sides. Staminodes completely absent. Filaments five, becoming 1.5 mm long, glabrous, acicular, spreading. Anthers five, before anthesis 1 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, yellowish with a semi-immersed apical gland, becoming reflexed after anthesis. Pollen 56 µ long, 26 µ broad, oblong. Disc 5-sinuate, slightly 5-crenulate, green, fleshy, stands open, exudes nectar, exceeds the ovary by a long way. Stigma 0.25 mm diam., globose, green, capitellate. Style glabrous, terete, at first deflexed becoming 1 mm long, erect. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.7 mm diam.; carpels glabrous, apices hemispherical. Fruit (from Williams 1873) 5-carpellate, 9 mm long, 8 mm diam., gland-dotted, glabrous, striate veined when dry; horns 2.5 mm long, spreading, apical gland immersed. Seed 6-6.5 mm long, 2.7 mm broad, black, shining.