Phylica harveyi (Arn.) Pillans

A moderately branched shrub, about 30 cm high, with wiry stems. Branchlets covered with spreading, grey pubescence. Leaves closely set, 6-13 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, cordate at base, with revolute margins covering most of the lower surface: upper surface smooth, at first pilose on the margins and midrib: petiole very short, hidden. Capitula solitary 1-1.5 cm wide, hemisphaeric, subtended by a few leaves. Bracts about 5 mm long, lanceolate, villous on the dorsal surface. Bracteoles 2, about 3 mm long, setaceous, villous. Flowers 5.5-6 mm long, upon a villous stipe, covered outside with long white silky hair which easily falls away from the tube and ovary: calyx-tube 1.75 mm deep, cyathiform, with an inconspicuous disc lining the sides of the lower half: sepals slightly recurved, 3 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate; upper surface flattened at the base, sharply convex above, with a beard of grey hair shortly above the base, the hairs extending upwards to well above the middle and becoming shorter. Petals inserted on the lower half of the tube, 0.5-0.75 mm long: lamina orbicular, cucullate, densely ciliate: claw as long or slightly longer, linear. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary narrowly turbinate, with caducous hairs. Style about 0.5 mm long, tapered into a small stigma. Fruit about 5 mm long, obconic, obtusely 3-angled, sparsely pilose, light brown, with a small depressed area on the summit.