Phylica elimensis Pillans

A much branched shrub, about 60 cm high, with ascending, wiry branches. Branchlets slender, clothed with adpressed, grey pubescence. Leaves closely set, 0.5-1.2 cm long: lamina narrowly linear, subacute or obtuse, rounded at base, semiterete, ascending or erect-spreading, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface closely and minutely tubercled, at first adpressedly pubescent: petiole about 1 mm long. Inflorescence about 1 cm long. Flowers 2-2.5 mm long, on pubescent pedicels 1-2 mm long, in the axils of the upper leaves, densely covered on the outer surface with retrorse, grey pubescence: calyx-tube cyathiform, filled with a fleshy disc: sepals 1 mm long, widely ovate, acute, gibbous at the apex. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 0.5 mm long: lamina rotundate, deeply concave, cucullate: claw scarcely a quarter as long, cuneate. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary obconic. Style very short. Stigma minute. Fruit pedicellate, about 3 mm long, rotundate, truncate above, retrorse-pubescent, with a large calyx-base on the summit.