Phylica tuberculata Pillans

A much branched shrub about 50 cm high, with ascending, wiry branches. Branchlets slender, covered with white tomentum. Leaves closely set, 1-1.4 cm long: lamina linear, subacute, rounded at base, somewhat incurved, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface coarsely tubercled, at first adpressedly pilose, at length glabrous: petiole 1-1.5 mm long. Capitula solitary, 5-7 mm wide, hemisphaeric, subtended by several long leaves. Bracts about 2.5 mm long, lanceolate, villous on the outer surface. Bracteoles 2, about as long as the bracts, linear. Flowers 2.5 mm long, stipitate: calyx-tube 0.75 mm deep, broadly cyathiform, pilose with deciduous hairs on the outer surface, lined up to the mouth on the inner surface with a rather fleshy disc having a slightly raised annulus at its base: sepals 1 mm long, ovate, convex above the middle, tomentose on the outer surface. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 0.5 mm long: lamina elliptic or rotundate-elliptic, concave, slightly cucullate at the apex: claw short, linear. Anthers rotundate-cordate, 1-celled. Ovary narrowly obconic, pilose with deciduous hairs. Style 0.5 mm long. Stigma conical.