Phylica diosmoides Sond.

A moderately branched shrub about 30 cm high. Branchlets wiry, clothed with short, grey tomentum with which are mingled longer, spreading, silky hairs. Leaves closely set, 1-1.5 cm long: lamina ascending or erect-spreading, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, apiculate, rounded at base, somewhat incurved, with revolute margins covering a half or less of the lower surface; upper surface inconspicuously tubercled and at first villous on the margins, smooth up the middle: petiole about 2 mm long. Capitula usually solitary 1-1.2 cm wide, hemisphaeric, surrounded by several leaves and the foliaceous bracts of the outer flowers. Inner bracts scarcely as long as the flowers, linear-lanceolate, villous. Bracteoles absent. Flowers stipitate, 3.5-4 mm long: calyx-tube 1-1.5 mm deep, cyathiform, with a sparse covering outside of long, ascending, grey, deciduous hairs: sepals 0.75-1.25 mm long, ovate, acute, with a prominent midrib, clothed outside with long, ascending, grey hairs. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 0.75 mm long: lamina cordate-ovate, rounded at the summit, deeply concave, cucullate at apex, with involute margins: claw scarcely half as long, cuneate. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic, covered with long, ascending, deciduous hairs. Style 1.5-1.75 mm long, subulate. Stigma small, divided into 3 minute, rounded lobes. Fruit about 3.5 mm long, obovate-rotundate, wrinkled, glabrous, chestnut-brown, with a small, depressed area on the summit.