Phylica humilis Sond.

A dwarf, much branched shrub, 20-30 cm high, with wiry stems. Branchlets very slender, clothed with grey pubescence. Leaves closely set, 1.75-2.5 mm long: lamina ovate or lanceolate-ovate, obtuse or acute, deeply cordate at base, slightly incurved at apex, with revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface rounded, minutely punctate, at first puberulous and with a tuft of hairs about the apex, soon becoming glabrous: petiole very short, hidden. Capitula solitary, few-flowered, about 3 mm wide, widely hemisphaeric, subtended by a few leaves. Bracts oblong or lanceolate, villous on the dorsal surface, shorter than the flowers. Bracteoles 1 or 2, acicular. Flowers stipitate, 1.5 mm long, densely covered outside with ascending, coarse, white hairs: calyx-tube broadly cyathiform, with an inconspicuous disc at base within: sepals 0.5-0.75 mm long, deltoid-ovate, acute, keeled down the upper half of the inner surface. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, scarcely 0.5 mm long: lamina rotundate, cucullate: claw half to almost as long, linear. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic. Style short and stout, trigonous. Stigma divided into 3 rounded lobes. Fruit 3 mm long, obovate-rotundate, wrinkled, puberulous, red-brown, with a small depressed area on the summit.