smooth; leaves petiolate, spreading or recurved, subulate, obtuse, apiculate, attenuated at the base, flat above, keeled beneath; heads of flowers globose, the size of a small pea, terminal, and axillary, racemose. A much-branched shrub. Leaves 4 lines long, 1/2 line wide, the uppermost 2 lines long. Racemes 1–2 inches long. Heads of flowers on scaly, 1–3 lines long pedicels. Petals spathulate, spreading. Anthers ovate. Very similar to the var δ. of B. abrotanoides, differs by the longer petioled leaves, much smaller, racemose heads, and smaller anthers.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In the channel of the Zwartkopsrivier. E. & Z.! Zey. 2644, Dec. (Herb. Sd.)
