Phylica laevifolia Pillans

A moderately branched shrub about 40 cm high, with ascending, rather wiry branchlets densely covered-with grey, spreading pubescence of various lengths. Leaves erect-spreading or spreading, 8-10 mm long: lamina lanceolate, obtuse or callus-acute, subcordate at base, with revolute margins covering about half of the lower surface; upper surface rugulose on the revolute portion of the margins, at first pilose on the margins and midrib, becoming glabrous and very smooth: petiole stout, 1 mm long. Capitula solitary, about 1.5 cm wide, hemisphaeric, subtended by many very pilose leaves. Bracts 8-9 mm long (excluding hairs), lanceolate, densely covered on the back with long, straight, grey hairs; those subtending the outer flowers lanceolate, of the inner flowers linear, long-attenuate. Bracteoles almost as long, acicular, similarly hairy. Flowers 8-9 mm long, stipitate, distinctly constricted between the tube and ovary: tube about 3.5 mm deep, narrowly urceolate or subcylindric, slightly constricted in the lower half, glabrous: sepals 4-4.5 mm long, narrowly linear, acuminate, widened at base; outer surface densely covered with long, straight, grey hairs; inner surface obtusely convex, glabrous. Petals 1 mm long, inserted on the lower half of the tube: lamina galeate: claw distinctly longer, narrowly linear. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary turbinate, glabrous: stigma subsessile.