Phylica amoena Pillans

A dwarf shrub, probably about 30 cm high, sparingly branched. Branchlets wiry, clothed with rather coarse, spreading, white hairs. Leaves closely set, 8-12 mm long: lamina erect-spreading or spreading, slightly incurved, lanceolate, subacute, rounded at base, coriaceous, dorsally compressed, with revolute margins covering about half of the lower surface; upper surface smooth and shiny, pilose on the margins and up the middle, tardily becoming glabrous: petiole about 1.5 mm long. Capitula solitary, 1.5-2 cm wide, the outer part composed of an involucre of leaves which shortly exceed the widely rounded central part. Involucral leaves about 7 mm long, lanceolate, with long, straight hairs on the outer surface and on the upper half of the inner. Bracts 6-7 mm long, linear-lanceolate, with long, straight hairs on the outer surface. Bracteoles 2, about 5 mm long, linear, villous on the outer surface. Flowers sessile, 6 mm long: calyx-tube 2 mm deep, infundibuliform, glabrous: sepals 2 mm long, lanceolate-linear, villous on the outer surface, angular-convex and glabrous on the inner. Petals inserted half way up the tube, 1 mm long: lamina orbicular, cucullate, with a rounded ridge from the front to the back of the hood: claw about as long, cuneate-linear. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary narrowly obconic, glabrous, separated from the tube by a constriction. Stigma subsessile, 3-humped.