Mimetes. | PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). 645 
2. M. saxatilis (Phillips in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 84); branches 
grey-tomentose or villous ; leaves closely imbricate, 11-1} in. long, 
8-15 lin. broad, obovate-elliptic or obovate, with a blunt glabrous 
3-toothed callous apex, rounded at the base, coriaceous, indistinctly 
5-6-nerved from near the base, densely adpressed-pubescent with 
whitish hairs; heads sessile, about 1 in, long, 10—12-flowered, 
solitary in the axils of the leaves at the ends of the branches ; 
involucral bracts 5—6-seriate, linear-lanceolate to ovate, all acutely 
acuminate, about half as long as the flowers, coriaceous, slightly 
rugose, densely ciliate, otherwise nearly glabrous ; receptacle long- 
setose ; perianth-tube very short, glabrous ; segments 9-12 lin. 
long, linear-filiform, densely pilose up to the limb ; limb 14 lin. 
long, linear, obtuse or subacute, glabrous or with a few scattered 
hairs; anthers sessile, 1} lin. long; filaments oblong, swollen, 
channelled ; apical gland } lin. long, lanceolate, acute ; hypogynous 
scales 1 lin. long, linear; ovary 4 lin. long, pubescent ; style 
11-1 in. long, cylindric ; stigma 1} lin. long, with an ovoid obtuse 
apex } lin. long, and with a distinct kink at the junction with 
the style. 
Sourn AFrica: without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Reaton: Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, Schlechter, 7716! Mier Kraal, 
Schlechter, 10521 ! 
Mimetes? nitens, Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 384; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 266 (Protea nitens, Thunb, Fl. Cap. ed. i. 514; ed. Schultes, 140) may 
belong here, but the original specimen consists of two leaves only. 
3. M. lyrigera (Knight, Prot. 65) ; stems 4-5 ft. high, sometimes 
decumbent ; branches densely pubescent or softly tomentose ; leaves 
14-3 in. long, 2-12 lin. broad, mostly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 
the lower often broader in the lower half, 3-5-fid at the apex or 
rarely a few entire on each shoot, obtuse at the base, coriaceous, 
indistinctly 3-nerved, or if broadened in the lower half then with 
6-9 fairly distinct nerves, pubescent when young, at length 
becoming glabrous ; heads sessile, 2 in. long including the styles, 
4-10-flowered, axillary towards the ends of the branches ; 
involucral bracts 3—4-seriate, linear or lanceolate, acuminate, acute, 
minutely pubescent or almost glabrous ; receptacle long-setose ; 
perianth-tube 2 lin. long, pubescent inside ; segments 14 in. long, 
filiform, long-pilose; limb 2}-3 lin. long, linear, acute, villous ; 
anthers 1} lin. long, linear ; apical gland $ lin. long, linear, acute ; 
hypogynous scales ? lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, white ; ovary 
} lin. long, pubescent ; style exserted, 2 in. long, more or less 
flattened, glabrous ; stigma 2} lin. long, subquadrangular, furrowed, 
very acute. M. cucullata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 107 ; 
Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 380 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 263, 
inel. vars. ; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 278. M. Ludwigii, Steud. ex 
Meisn. Le. M. mixta, Gandog. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlviii. p. xciil. 
M. cucullata, vars. Dregei and laxa, Gandog. le. Protea cucullata, 
Linn. ‘Mant. 189; Thunb. Diss. Prot. 23; Murr. Syst. Veg. 
