Phylica propinqua Sond.

A moderately branched shrub, about 40 cm high, with wiry, often virgate branches. Branchlets rather slender, clothed with ascending, grey hairs. Leaves 5-15 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, lanceolate, acute, cordate at base, with 'revolute margins covering a half or more of the lower surface; upper surface smooth or more or less obscurely tubercled on the margins, up the midrib and about the apex, at first pilose upon the tubercled parts, becoming glabrous: petiole 1.5-2 mm long. Capitula solitary, 1.5-2 cm wide, hemisphaeric, involucred by the outer foliaceous bracts which are about 7 mm long. Inner bracts 6-8 mm long, oblong, acute, very densely villous with white hairs on the outer surface, glabrous on the inner. Bracteoles 2, 7 mm long, linear, densely villous. Flowers sessile, 8-10 mm long: calyx-tube 2.75 mm deep, obconic, glabrous: sepals 4-5.5 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate, conspicuously angular-convex on the inner surface, densely covered on the outer with long, ascending, white hairs. Petal inserted at the mouth of the tube, 1-1.25 mm long: lamina galeate, elliptic, slightly compressed laterally, with a rounded dorsal projection: claw slightly longer, ligulate. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic, glabrous. Style stout, together with the depressed stigma 0.5-0.75 mm high. Fruit 6-7 mm long, obovate-rotundate, subtrigonous, wrinkled, chestnut-brown, with a small remnant of the base of the calyx upon the summit.