Phylica apiculata Sond.

A moderately branched shrub about 60 cm high. Branchlets slender, clothed with grey pubescence and furnished with scattered, long hairs. Leaves well spaced, 0.7-1.4 cm long: lamina erect-spreading, linear-lanceolate, very acute, apiculate, widely rounded at base, with revolute margins covering about half of the lower surface; upper surface smooth, minutely tubercled on the margins, pilose on the midrib and margins: petiole 1.5-2 mm long. Capitula solitary or occasionally panicled, about 1 cm wide, hemisphaeric, surrounded at base by foliaceous bracts. Bracts of the inner flowers about 3 mm long, linear or setaceous, villous on the dorsal surface. Bracteoles 2, setaceous, sometimes absent. Flowers 3-3.5 mm long, on a villous stipe: calyx-tube about 0.5 mm deep, cyathiform, glabrous: sepals 1 mm long, deltoid-ovate, acute; outer surface covered with long, grey hairs; inner surface glabrous, with a prominent median ridge at the apex diminishing downwards. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 0.5-0.75 mm long: lamina cucullate, orbicular: claw about as long, cuneate. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic, glabrous. Style stout, 0.5 mm long. Stigma subcapitate.