646 PROTEACE (Phillips & Hutchinson). | Mimetes. 
ed. xiv. 137 ; Lam. Encyel. v. 656 ; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 126. 
Leucadendron cucullatum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 93; ed. ii. 136; Berg. 
in Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1766, 320; Berg. Descr. Pl. 
Cap. 14.—Protea foliis lanceolatis obtusis flores, ete., Royen, Fi. 
Seyd. Prodr. 184. Leucadendros africana, s. Scolymocephalos, ete., 
Pluk. Almag. 212, t. 304, fig. 6. Hypophyllocarpodendron foliis 
inferioribus, etc., Boerh. Ind. Alt. Pl. Hort. Ludg. Bat. ii. 206. 
Scolymocephalus sew Hypophyllocarpodendron foliis tribus, etc., Weinm. 
Phyt. iv. 297, t. 905, fig. b. 
Var. 6, Hartogii (E. P. Phillips); mature leaves conspicuously hirsute on the 
margin with white hairs. Mimetes jimbriefolius, Knight, Prot. 65. M. Hartogii, 
R. Br. in Trans. Linn, Soc. x. 108 ; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 381; Meisn. 
in DC. Prods. xiv. 263. Protea cucullata, B, Lam. Ill. i. 239, excl. plate. Hypo- 
phyllocarpodendron foliis lanuginosis, etc., Boerh. Ind. Alt. Pl. Hort. Lugd. Bat. ii. 
205, t. 205. Seolymocephalus seu Hypophyllocarpodendron foliis lanugunosis, etc., 
Weinm. Phyt. iv. t. 906, a. 
Sournh Arrica: without locality, Oldenburg! Thunberg! Nelson! Niven! 
Ludwig! Harvey! Drége! Thom, 424! 935! Ecklon & Zeyher! Brentel, 40! 
Andersson ! Gueinzius! Var. B, Bergius, 273! Niven! Mund! Krauss, 1037. 
Coast Recion: Tulbagh Div. ; Witzenberg Range, Burchell, 8692! Pappe! 
near Tulbagh Waterfall, MacOwan! Phillips, 525! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits 
Kloof, Drége! Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, Burchell, 661! Milne, 28! Camps 
Bay, Burchell, 351! near Simons Town, Wright! Bolus, 4198! Wolley-Dod, 291 ! 
Caledon Div. ; Lowrys Pass, Kuntze! between the Palmiet River and Lowrys 
Pass, Burchell, 8186! near Grabouw, Bolus, 4198! Baviaans Kloof, Burchell, 
7789! Schlechter, 9844! Houw Hoek, Zeyher, 1478! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., 773! Schlechter, 7399! Zwart Berg, Zeyher! Swellendam Div. ; 
mountains near the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 1478 8 ! Voormans Bosch, Zeyher, 
3693! mountains near Swellendam, Galpin, 4480! Riversdale Div. ; between 
Little Vet River and Garcias Pass, Burchell, 6889! Garcias Pass, Galpin, 4479! 
Mossel Bay Div. ; Attaquas Kloof, Drége! Oudtshoorn Div. ; near Oudtshoorn, 
Britten! Var. B: Cape Div. ; Stinkwater, near Camps Bay, Zeyher, 4681! Table 
Mountain, near Oude Kraal, Pappe! mountains near Simonstown, Wright! 
Jameson! Pappe |! 
4. M. splendida (Knight, Prot. 66) ; shrub 5-6 ft. high ; branches 
velvety-tomentose ; leaves 1-2} in. long, 5—9 lin. broad, oblong or 
elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 3-toothed or rarely entire at 
the glabrescent apex, slightly narrowed or rounded at the base, 
indistinctly 5—7-nerved, silky tomentose with adpressed hairs ; heads 
sessile, including the styles 2 in. long, 8—11-flowered, axillary, 
aggregated at the end of the branches ; involucral bracts 3—4-seriate, 
narrowly oblong, ovate or elliptic, coriaceous, somewhat rugose, 
ciliate, glabrous; receptacle finely setose; perianth-tube 1 lin. 
long, pilose; segments 13-16 lin. long, linear-filiform, long rusty- 
pilose; limb 3-4 lin. long, linear, subacute, long-pilose on the 
back ; filaments oblong, fused with the perianth ; anthers 2}—3 lin. 
long, linear ; apical glands } lin. long, ellipsoid, obtuse ; hypogy- 
nous scales | lin. long, linear ; ovary } lin. long, pubescent ; style 
13-1} in. long, cylindric, glabrous; stigma 3 lin. long, linear, 
obtuse or rounded at the apex, sinuate at the junction with the 
style; fruit 34 lin. long, ellipsoid; testa hard. M. Hibbertii, 
R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 108 ;-Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
