Phylica greyi Pillans

A divaricately branched, wiry shrub, about 30 cm high. Branchlets closely pubescent, slender. Leaves closely set, 4-5 mm long, erect-spreading: lamina oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, cordate at base, semiterete, laterally compressed at the apex, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface smooth except for slight depressions: petiole very short, hidden by the base of the lamina. Capitula solitary, at the ends of the branchlets, 4-5 mm wide, orbicular, subtended by several short leaves. Bracts 1-1.5 mm long, oblong, obtuse, pubescent at the base, leaf-like and glabrous in the upper half. Bracteoles about as long or longer, 2 or usually absent from the inner flowers, linear-lanceolate, pubescent except at the apex. Flowers 2 mm long, on very short, pubescent pedicels, pentagonal in the upper half while in the bud stage: calyx-tube broadly cyathiform, 0.5 mm deep, sparsely pubescent on the outer surface: sepals, 1 mm long, deltoid-ovate, acute, flattened, slightly gibbous at the apex, glabrous or very sparsely pubescent at the base of the outer surface. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube: lamina rotundate, cucullate: claw about as long, linear-cuneate. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary obconic, sparsely clothed with short, ascending pubescence. Style and stigma together 0.5 mm long, stoutly columnar.