Phylica longimontana Pillans

A much branched, dwarf shrub, wiry in the lower parts. Branchlets slender, clothed with spreading, grey pubescence. Leaves closely set, 5-7 mm long: lamina spreading or erect-spreading, somewhat incurved, lanceolate, acute, rounded at base, with loosely revolute margins covering about half of the lower surface; upper surface sparsely and minutely tubercled, at first sparsely pilose, soon becoming glabrous except upon the lower half of the midrib: petiole 1 mm long. Capitula solitary, 4-7 mm wide, almost flattened across the upper side, subtended by several leaves 4-6 mm long. Bracts of the inner flowers about 2 mm long, acicular, villous on the outer surface. Bracteoles sometimes present in the outer part of the capitulum. Flowers stipitate, 2-2.5 mm long, with a covering of long, straight, white hairs: calyx-tube 0.5 mm deep, broadly cyathiform, with a fleshy disc at the base: sepals 0.5 mm long, deltoid-ovate, acute, flattened, with a sparse beard of rigid hairs on the upper half. Petals inserted on the lower half of the tube, scarcely 0.5 mm long: lamina rotundate or orbicular, cucullate, with incurved margins: claw about as long, cuneate. Anthers rotundate-cordate, 1-celled. Ovary turbinate. Style and stigma together 0.5 mm long, stout, the latter 3-humped.