Phyllosma barosmoides (Dümmer) I.Williams

Shrubs 0.3 m tall, 0.6-0.9 m across, low, woody, growing from crevices in massive T.M.S. rocks. Branches short, glabrous, rough with leaf scars. Branchlets short, sparsely pubescent, hidden by the leaves. Leaves 6-8 mm long (including the petiole 1 mm long), 2.9-3.8 mm broad, obovate, obtuse, flat, glabrous, crowded, spreading-erect, alternate; apex with a large discoid gland often with another somewhat smaller to either side; margins thick with many gland dots, villous-ciliate at first; adaxial surface smooth, shining; abaxial surface with scattered gland dots, faintly nerved. Inflorescence twin, terminal, pink; pedicel less than 1 mm long, puberulous. Bract 5-6.2 mm long (including the petiole 1 mm long), 2.5 mm broad, leaf-like. Bracteoles two, 3.4 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, linear; apex with a flat discoid gland; margins ciliate with a few gland dots to either side above. Calyx lobes five, 4.8 mm long, 1.4-1.8 mm broad, oblong, glabrous, ciliate, gland-dotted near the margins above; apex with a flat discoid gland. Petals five, 8.5-9 mm long overall, 3.5 mm broad, elliptic, narrowing gradually to 0.5 mm at the base, glabrous; apex with a small point with one or two small hairs to either side. Staminodes absent. Filaments five, becoming 8 mm long, glabrous, filiform. Anthers c. 1 mm long; apical gland absolutely minute, immersed in the cleft between the thecae at the apex. Pollen 35 µ long, 23 µ diam., ellipsoid. Disc at first closes over the ovary, touches the base of the style, the very slightly larger lobes of the disc are opposite the petals. Stigma 0.2 mm diam., simple. Style becoming 10 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.8 mm long, 1 mm diam., glabrous; apices globose, inclined inwards. Fruit and seed not seen.