Phylica purpurea Sond.

A much branched plant up to 2 m high, with ascending branches. Branchlets clothed with grey pubescence. Leaves usually closely set, 0.5-1 cm long: the lamina erect-spreading or spreading, mostly more or less incurved, lanceolate, acute or obtuse, often apiculate, rounded or cordate at base, with revolute margins covering a half or more of the tomentose lower surface; upper surface smooth and glabrous except for the finely tubercled and, at first, pubescent margins and median strip: petiole about 1 mm long. Inflorescences dense, capituliform racemes, hemisphaerical or orbicular, 7-10 mm wide, often aggregated in panicles. Bracts foliaceous, half as long to as long as the flowers. Bracteoles absent. Pedicels 1-1.5 mm long, covered with long, silky hairs. Flowers 3-4 mm long, covered outside with long, usually spreading, silky and woolly, white hairs (those upon the ovary longest and straightest): tube about 0.5 mm deep, broadly cyathiform, almost filled with a fleshy disc: sepals erect-spreading, 1.75-2 mm long, ovate, flattened, gibbous or keeled at the apex, pink in life: petals inserted shortly below the sinuses, 0.5-1 mm long; lamina cucullate, reniform-orbicular or orbicular; claw cuneate-oblong or cuneate, as long as or slightly longer than the lamina. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary turbinate. Style stout, about 0.5 mm long, with a shortly lobed stigma. Fruit about 6 mm long, rotundate, covered with spreading, silky, white hairs; with a convex, glabrous area occupying the summit of the fruit.