Phylica intrusa Pillans

A much branched shrub about 60 cm high, rigid in the lower parts. Branchlets slender, clothed with grey pubescence. Leaves about 5 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, linear, obtuse, cordate at base, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface smooth, at first pubescent on the margins: petiole 1-1.5 mm long. Inflorescence a solitary capituliform spike about 6 mm long and wide. Flowers 4 mm long, stipitate in the axils of the upper reduced leaves, clothed outside with white tomentum. Bracteoles absent. Calyx-tube broadly urceolate, 1 mm deep. Sepals 1.5 mm long, deltoid, attenuate, very convex above the middle, minutely puberulous on the median angle, erect, abruptly spreading from the middle which projects inwards over the tube. Petals usually absent, occasionally present in an incomplete whorl, acicular or lanceolate, arising on the upper half of the tube. Anthers cordate, 1-celled. Ovary obconic, separated from the tube by a constriction. Style almost 0.5 mm long. Fruit about 5 mm long, obovate, with a small calyx-area.