Mimetes.|  rroreacka (Phillips & Hutchinson). 647 
jii. 381; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 264. Protea Hibbertii, Poir. 
Encyel. Suppl. iv. 568. 
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Sour Arrica: without locality, Roxburgh! Thom, 275! Ludwig! 
Coast Recon: Caledon Div. ; mountains near Houw Hoek, Pappe! Swellen- 
dam Div. ; near Swellendam, Kennedy! Grootvaders Bosch, Bowie! Mund! 
Pappe ! Tradouw mountains, Bowie! George Div. ; mountains near George, Drége ! 
lower part of the Cradock Berg, Burchell, 6028 ! Barbiers Kraal, Niven, 75! 
5. M. integra (Hutchinson) ; branches densely villous; leaves 
2-21 in. long, about } in. broad, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 
with a subacute entire callous apex, slightly narrowed to the base, 
with several distinct ascending nerves, densely adpressed silvery 
tomentose; heads much shorter than the leaves, including the 
styles 14-1} in. long, 7—8-flowered, crowded towards the ends of 
the branches; outer involucral bracts 3—4 lin. long, 2} lin. broad, 
ovate, obtuse, intermediate about } in. long and 3 lin. broad, 
oblong, rounded at the apex, thinly adpressed-pubescent outside, 
glabrous and striate within, the innermost (about 8) 6—7 lin. long, 
linear, densely villous outside, glabrous within ; receptacle finely 
setose ; perianth-tube very short; segments about 1 in. long, 
filiform, thinly subadpressed-pubescent ; limb 3}—4 lin. long, linear, 
acute, shortly pubescent and with a few long ascending hairs 
outside ; filaments thick, about 1 lin. long; anthers 1} lin. long, 
linear-filiform ; apical gland very small; hypogynous scales 1 lin. 
long, subulate-filiform ; ovary } lin. long, narrowly ovoid, shortly 
pubescent ; style about 1} in. long, filiform, glabrous ; stigma 3 lin. 
jdong, linear, obtuse, only slightly differentiated from the style ; 
fruits not seen. M. Massoni, Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xiv. 264, partly, 
as to Zeyher, not of R. Br. 
Coast REGIon: Caledon Div. ; banks of the Zondereinde River, near Appels 
Kraal or neighbouring mountains, Zeyher, 3688 ! 
6. M. argentea (Knight, Prot. 67); shrub 4 ft. high ; branches 
velvety-tomentose ; leaves 14—2} in. long, 1-1} in. broad, elliptic 
or oblong-elliptic, with a subobtuse callus at the apex, entire, 
slightly narrowed to the base, indistinctly 9-nerved, very densely 
tomentose with adpressed silky hairs ; heads subsessile, 1} in. long 
including the styles, 7—9-flowered, axillary ; involucral bracts 
about 3-seriate, coriaceous, the outer ovate-oblong, silky tomentose, 
the inner linear, long-villous ; receptacle densely setose with long 
weak hairs; perianth-tube very short, rusty-villous; segments 
nearly 1 in. long, linear, rusty-villous ; limb 43 lin. long, villous ; 
stamens 3 lin, long; filaments swollen, fused with the perianth ; 
anthers 23 lin. long, linear ; apical gland 4 lin. long, ovoid, acute ; 
hypogynous scales 1} lin. long, linear, subacute, white ; ovary } lin. 
long, oblong, pubescent ; style 14 in. long, filiform, glabrous ; 
stigma 3 lin. long, linear, obtuse, furrowed, kneed at the junction 
with the style. Mimetes Massoni, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 
