Phylica maximiliani Schltr.

A moderately branched shrub, about 60 cm high, with ascending, wiry stems. Branchlets slender, shortly cano-tomentose. Leaves closely set, 7-10 mm long: lamina ascending or erect-spreading, linear, obtuse, rounded at base, almost straight, subterete, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface closely tubercled, glabrous: petiole about 1 mm long. Capitula solitary, 1-1.5 cm wide, many-flowered, widely rounded above, involucred by a few leaves and outer bracts. Inner bracts 6-8 mm long, lanceolate or linear, puberulous on the outer surface, densely villous on the margins and upper half of the inner surface. Bracteoles 1 or 2, about 6 mm long, acicular, villous. Flowers 6.5-7 mm long, stipitate: calyx-tube 2.5 mm deep, campanulate, with a low cup-shaped disc at base, sparsely tomentose on the outer surface: sepals 2 mm long, subulate from a broad concave base; inner surface bearded from the base of the margins upwards, thence around the convexity, scabrid up the middle; outer surface densely tomentose. Petals inserted half way up the tube, 0.75 mm long, oblanceolate, obtuse, conspicuously ciliate and slightly incurved at the apex. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic, densely villous. Style stout, 0.75 mm long. Stigma 3-humped.