Phylica strigulosa Sond.

A much branched wiry shrub, about 30 cm high. Branchlets ascending, rather slender, clothed with adpressed, silky, grey pubescence. Leaves mostly 1.2-1.5 cm long: lamina ascending to erect-spreading, often secund, linear or subulate, acute, frequently recurved at the apex, rounded at base, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface or almost so; upper surface minutely tubercled, often pitted, with adpressed, grey pubescence, eventually glabrous: petiole about 1 mm long. Spikes dense, capituliform, about 1 cm long, up to 1.5 cm, conical or rotundate. Bracts 3.5-4 mm long, linear-lanceolate, acute, covered with adpressed hairs except at the base within. Bracteoles 2, about 1 mm long, lanceolate, clothed on the outer surface with long, rough hairs. Flowers 5-6.5 mm long: calyx-tube about 2 mm deep, covered outside with stiff, retrorse hairs: sepals 2.25-2.5 mm long, lanceolate, acute, covered on the outer surface with adpressed, stiff hairs directed towards the apex; slightly convex, glabrous and with a median keel on the inner surface. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 1-1.25 mm long: lamina ovate, shortly cucullate at the apex, with incurved margins: claw minute, transversely oblong. Anthers 1-celled, 0.75 mm long, cordate in front view: cells elliptic, with their backs contiguous. Ovary broadly obconic, clothed with stiff, retrorse hairs. Style about 1.5 mm long, stout. Stigma narrowly conical, entire or trifid, reaching to about the middle of the tube. Fruit 7-8 mm long, rotundate, narrowed towards the base, with 3 furrows from base to summit, slightly wrinkled, puberulous or glabrous, dark brown, with a small depressed area on the top.