Phylica floribunda Pillans

A much branched, wiry shrub, about 40 cm high. Branchlets slender, sparsely clothed with short, spreading, grey pubescence. Leaves about 5 mm long: lamina ascending, lanceolate, apiculate and laterally compressed at the apex, widened, and deeply cordate at the base, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface smooth or wrinkled, often obsoletely tubercled on the margins, sparsely pilose in the undeveloped state: petiole very short. Capitula usually on short branchlets and associated in panicle-like clusters, 5-7 mm wide, broadly hemisphaeric, involucred by several short leaves and the outer bracts with foliaceous tips. Bracts of the inner flowers 1-5 mm long, linear-oblong, villous. Bracteoles 2, similar, about as long. Flowers subsessile, 2 mm long: calyx-tube scarcely 0.75 mm deep, cyathiform, glabrous: sepals 0.75 mm long, ovate, acute, rounded-convex on the inner surface, with a dense covering of white tomentum on the outer surface. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube; lamina elongate-galeate, much compressed laterally: claw slightly longer, linear. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary turbinate, glabrous. Stigma sessile, pulvinate.