Phylica agathosmoides Pillans

A much branched shrub, about 60 cm high, with ascending, wiry branches. Branchlets slender, clothed with short, adpressed grey pubescence. Leaves crowded, ascending or erect-spreading, 7-10 mm long: lamina narrowly linear, tipped with an acute callus, rounded at base, mostly straight, with closely re volute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface minutely tubercled, at first sparsely clothed with short, adpressed, grey hairs, becoming glabrous: petiole about 1-5 mm long. Spikes compact, rotundate or ovate, 0.5-2 cm long. Bracts of the lower flowers foliaceous, the upper 4-5 mm long, lanceolate, flattened, with revolute, pubescent margins. Bracteoles 4-7, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, convex on the inner side, ciliate. Flowers shortly stipitate, about 4 mm long: calyx-tube scarcely 1.5 mm deep, cyathiform, glabrous: sepals 2 mm long, deltoid-ovate, long-attenuate, villous on the outer surface, flattened and shortly pubescent on the basal part of the inner surface, convex on the attenuate portion, minutely puberulous on the angle. Petals inserted on the upper half of the tube, about 0.75 mm long, setaceous, incurved. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic, glabrous. Style very short, columnar. Stigma minute, shortly lobed.