Phylica levynsiae Pillans

A much branched shrub, about 50 cm high, with ascending, wiry branches. Branchlets slender, densely tomentose. Leaves closely set, 4-9 mm long: lamina ascending, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, subcordate at base, slightly incurved, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface closely tubercled, at first pubescent, at length glabrous: petiole about 0.5 mm long. Capitula solitary, about 1 cm wide, hemisphaeric, involucred by many modified leaves reaching to shortly above the middle. Bracts 7 mm long, linear, acute, densely covered on both sides above the middle with long, silvery hairs, villous below on the outer surface, glabrous on the inner. Bracteoles 2.5-6 mm long, acicular, silvery-villous on both sides except at the base of the inner side. Flowers stipitate, 5.5-6 mm long, silky-villous on the outer surface, densely so on the sepals: calyx-tube 3 mm deep, urceolate: sepals 1.5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, subacute, flattened at base, sharply convex above, with a short beard depending from the base of the convex portion. Petals absent. Stamens inserted half way up the tube. Anthers cordate, 1-celled. Ovary turbinate. Style 1-25 mm long, slender. Stigma divided into I erect lobes.