Phylica parviflora P.J.Bergius

A much branched, usually compact shrub, about 40 cm high, with wiry branches. Branchlets slender, thinly covered with very short tomentum with which are mingled straight, silky hairs. Leaves usually closely set, 4-5 mm long, sometimes up to 7 mm: lamina lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, subcordate at base, almost always slightly incurved, with revolute margins convering the lower surface, or sometimes with the lower surface for the most part exposed; upper surface smooth or only so up the middle, tubercled on the margins, at first pubescent on the tubercled portions: petiole minute. Capitula 3-4 mm wide, widely rounded or almost flat above, usually 5-8 flowered, very numerous, at the ends of short, sometimes leafless branchlets and very often grouped in panicles. Bracts of the outer flowers partly foliaceous. Bracts of the inner flowers about 1.25 mm long, oblong, acute, villous on the dorsal surface. Bracteoles 2, similar but linear or subulate. Flowers 1.5-1.75 mm long, shortly stipitate: calyx-tube scarcely 0.5 mm deep, broadly cyathiform, glabrous, or sparingly pilose on the upper half of the outer surface, with a disc lining the base: sepals 0.5-0.75 mm long, deltoid-ovate, acute, convex on the upper half of the inner surface, with a dense covering of long, straight, white hairs on the outer surface. Petals inserted at or shortly within the mouth of the tube, 0.25 or scarcely 0.5 mm long: lamina orbicular, cucullate, slightly keeled on the upper half of the back: claw about as long, linear-cuneate. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic, glabrous. Stigma sessile, 3-humped. Fruit about 4 mm long, obovate-rotundate, somewhat wrinkled, blackish.