Phylica chionophila Schltr.

A much branched shrub about 40 cm high. Branchlets wiry, covered with silky, grey pubescence. Leaves crowded, 1-1.5 cm long: lamina linear, obtuse or subacute, narrowed or rounded at base, with closely re volute margins covering the lower surface, very slightly incurved; upper surface rounded, minutely tuberculate-scabrid, at first silky villous, soon becoming glabrous. Capitula 1-1.2 cm wide, hemisphaeric, slightly flattened above, surrounded by a few shorter villous leaves and foliaceous bracts. Bracts of the inner flowers 4.5-6 mm long, oblong-oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, acute, navicular, silky villous on the outer surface. Bracteoles 2, about 4.5 mm long, linear, dorsally villous. Flowers stipitate, 3.5-5 mm long, slightly compressed laterally, considerably overtopped by the long, woolly hairs of the sepals: calyx-tube 1 mm deep, cyathiform, covered outside with long, ascending, silky, white hairs: sepals 1.5-1.75 mm long, ovate, obtuse; inner surface slightly concave, gibbous at the apex, glabrous; outer surface covered by a dense mass of white, woolly hair. Petals at the mouth of the tube, 1 mm long: lamina rotundate or ovate, obtuse, cucullate: claw about half as long, linear. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary narrowly obconic, covered with long, silky hairs. Style about 0.5 mm Long, stout. Stigma capitate. Fruit 6-7 mm long, rotundate, with a large convex, glabrous area upon the summit, wrinkled, purple-brown, thinly silky pubescent and puberulous.