Phylica odorata Schltr.

A moderately branched shrub, usually 30-50 cm high, with wiry, ascending branches. Branchlets rather slender, clothed with short, spreading, grey pubescence. Leaves closely placed, 0.6-1-5 cm long: lamina ascending or erect-spreading, usually slightly incurved, linear, tipped with an acute callus, rounded or subcordate at base, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface closely and minutely tuberculate-scabrid, clothed with adpressed, grey pubescence, at length becoming glabrous or almost so: petiole 1-2 mm long. Capitula about 1 cm wide, hemisphaeric or subglobose, involucrate at base with a few, short, partly expanded leaves. Bracts 4-5 mm long, ovate, oblong or lanceolate, acute, villous on the outer surface. Bracteoles 2 or 3, 3.5-4 mm long, linear, villous on the outer surface. Flowers shortly stipitate, 5-6.5 mm long: calyx-tube 1.5-2.5 mm deep, cyathiform, cano-pubescent on the outer surface: sepals 2-3.5 mm long, ovate at base, thence linear and angular-convex, villous on the outer surface. Petals inserted shortly within the mouth of the tube, 0.5-0.75 mm long, oblanceolate-linear or setaceous, absent from some flowers or incomplete in number in others. Anthers rotundate, 1-celled. Ovary obconic, silky-villous. Style very short and stout. Stigma composed of 3 rounded lobes. Fruit about 6 mm long, obovate, silky-pubescent, surmounted by a small calyx-base.