Phylica brachycephala Sond.

A much branched shrub about 60 cm high. Branchlets short and slender, lightly clothed with short, grey pubescence. Leaves 3-6 mm long: lamina usually spreading, lanceolate-linear, subacute or obtuse, apiculate, rounded or subcordate at base, slightly incurved, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface smooth or minutely tubercled and at first pubescent on the sides, soon becoming glabrous: petiole 0.5-1 mm long. Capitula 2-3 mm wide, 1.5-2 mm high, few-or many-flowered, subtended by 2 or 3 small leaves. Bracts 1.5 mm long, setaceous, with a dense covering of white hairs on the dorsal surface. Bracteoles absent. Flowers sessile, 1.5-1.75 mm long, with a dense covering of grey pubescence on the outer surface: calyx-tube 0.25 mm deep, broadly cyathiform, lined with an inconspicuous disc: calyx-segments 0.75 mm long, ovate, acute, flattened in the lower half, prominently convex in the upper. Petals at the mouth of the tube, scarcely 0.5 mm long: lamina cucullate, reniform-orbicular: claw about as long, cuneate. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic. Style 0-5 mm long, conical. Stigma rounded, entire.