Phylica comosa Sond.

A much branched shrub about 40 cm high. Branchlets slender, clothed with short, silky, grey pubescence. Leaves crowded, about 8 mm long: lamina linear lanceolate, acute, subcordate at base, somewhat incurved, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface rounded, rather coarsely tubercled all over, at first villous, soon becoming glabrous: petiole about 1 mm long. Capitula about 8 mm wide, subglobose, surrounded by a few leaves and large bracts of the outer flowers. Bracts of the inner flowers 2.5 mm long, acicular, densely covered with long, ascending, white hairs. Bracteoles 2, similar to the inner bracts. Flowers about 3 mm long, shortly stipitate: calyx-tube about 1 mm deep, cyathiform, tomentose on the outer surface: sepals 1.5 mm long, lanceolate, tomentose on the outer surface, with a prominent median keel on the inner surface. Petals inserted half way up the tube, 0.5 mm long: lamina galeate: claw as long, linear-oblong. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary turbinate, silky pubescent. Fruit about 5 mm long, broadly obovate, subtly trigonous, silky pubescent, with a small depressed area on the summit.