Phylica linifolia Pillans

A divaricately branched, low shrub, with wiry branches. Branchlets very slender, clothed with adpressed, grey pubescence. Leaves closely set, 5-9 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, narrowly linear, acute, often apiculate, rounded at base, semiterete, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface rugulose or smooth, more or less minutely tubercled on the margins, with adpressed pubescence only while in the juvenile state, soon becoming glabrous: petiole about 1 mm long. Capitula solitary, 5-7 mm wide, widely rounded over the upper surface, subtended and much exceeded by a few leaves. Bracts of the outer flowers 2.5-3 mm long. Bracts of the inner flowers about 2 mm long, linear, clothed with long, white, silky hairs. Bracteoles 2, similar to the bracts but narrower. Flowers about 2.5 mm long, on a very short, villous stipe: calyx-tube 0.5 mm deep, cyathiform, glabrous: sepals 0.5-0.75 mm long, ovate, acute, rounded-convex on the inner surface, densely tomentose on the outer. Petals inserted half way up the tube, 0.5 mm long or slightly longer: lamina galeate, crested with a ridge from front to back: claw cuneate-oblong, about as long. Anthers orbicular, 1-celled. Ovary turbinate, glabrous. Stigma sessile. Fruit about 3 o mm long, rotundate, light brown, surmounted by a small calyx-base.