Phylica stokoei Pillans

A much branched shrub about 50 cm high, with ascending, wiry branches. Branchlets slender, densely clothed with short, buff-coloured tomentum. Leaves closely set, 0.8-1 cm long: lamina linear, obtuse or apiculate, rounded at base, erect-spreading, somewhat incurved, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface slightly rough with obscure tubercles, at first pubescent with golden hairs, at length glabrous: petiole 1.5-2 mm long. Capitula solitary, about 5 mm wide, few-flowered, surrounded and overtopped by very closely set leaves in 2 or 3 series. Bracts 4-5 mm long, leaf-like but smaller, covered with straight, golden hairs on the dorsal surface. Bracteoles absent. Flowers stipitate, 4.5-5 mm long, clothed on the outer surface with adpressed, straight, golden hairs: calyx-tube about 1.5 mm Deep, cyathiform, lined up to the mouth with a thin disc having the upper margin free: sepals 2 mm long, erect-spreading, lanceolate, ovate, subacute, with a prominent, blunt, minutely setaceo-papillate keel down the upper half of the inner surface. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 1 mm long: lamina ovate, cucullate, with incurved margins: claw minute, subquadrate. Anthers 0.75 mm long, 2-celled, apiculate, the cells elliptic, distinct. Ovary turbinate, with hairs longer than those upon the tube. Style 1-1.5 mm long. Stigma shortly cylindric, obtuse, entire or 3-lobed, scarcely reaching up to the margin of the disc. Fruit 4-5 mm long, obovate-rotundate, sub-trilobed, sparsely villous, red-brown, with a small calyx-area.