Mimetes.| | PROTEACEA (Phillips & Hutchinson). 649 
oblong, pubescent ; style 2-2} in. long, much exserted, trigonous 
above, subobliquely inserted on the ovary, glabrous ; stigma }—1 lin. - 
long, furrowed, subacute, distinctly sinuate at the junction with 
the style. R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 105; Roem. & Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. iii. 379; Reichenb. Ic. Exot. 62, t. 92; Meisn. in DC. 
Prodr. xiv. 262. M. capitulata, Sieber ex Meisn. lc. M. decapi- 
tata, Meisn. l.c. Protea hirta, Linn. Mant. 188 ; Thunb. Diss. Prot. 
57; Lam. Ill. i. 234; Thunb. Prodr. 27; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 532 ; 
Poir. Encyel. v. 641; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 139. Leucaden- 
dron hirtum, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 136.—Lepidocarpodendron foliis 
sericeis, etc., Boerh. Ind. Alt. Pl. Hort. Lugd. Bat. ii. 194, t. 194. 
Scolymocephalus africanus argenteus, ete., Weinm. Phyt. iv. 292, 
t. 899,-a. ‘ 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Bowie! Ludwig! Thom! Ecklon, 334! 
Sieber, 4! 
Coast Recion: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, Thunberg! Bodkin in Herb Bolus, 
4929 B! Cape Flats, Zeyher, 527! Rondebosch, Jameson! hills near Simons Bay, 
Brown ! Schlechter, 1201! Pappe! plain above Smitwinkel Bay, Bolus, 4929! 
Cape Point, MacOwan, Herb, Norm. Austr.-Afr. 911! Phillips ! Stellenbosch Div. ; 
Hottentots Holland Mountains, Zeyher, 3690! Mrs. de Jongh in Herb. Galpin, 
3508 ! Bredasdorp Div. ; near Elim, Bolus, 8591! Schlechter, 9647 ! Knysna Div. ; 
near Plettenbergs Bay, Bowie ! 
9. M. palustris (Knight, Prot. 66, excl. syn. Boerh.) ; branches 
decumbent, rusty-villous; leaves 3-1 in. long, 3-5 lin. broad, 
imbricate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, shortly pointed and entire at. 
the apex, a little narrowed to the base, with no visible nerves, 
coriaceous, adpressed villous, with more or less rust-coloured hairs 
on both surfaces ; heads longer than the leaves, including the styles 
about 1} in. long, 3-flowered, crowded at the ends of the branches ; 
outer involucral bracts about 4 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
thinly villous especially towards the margin ; intermediate about 
3 in. long and } in. broad, oblong-oblanceolate, acute, thinly 
adpressed-villous outside, glabrous and striate within, the innermost 
few, almost linear and more densely villous ; receptacle finely and 
long-setose ; perianth-tube about 1 lin. long ; segments j in. long, 
linear-filiform, rather densely setose with long ascending hairs ; 
limb 14 lin. long, narrowly lanceolate, subacute, densely setose 
outside ; filaments thick, } lin. long; anthers 3 lin. long; apical 
gland suborbicular, about } lin. in diam. ; hypogynous scales and 
ovary not seen; style exserted, 1} in. long, sulcate, glabrous ; 
stigma scarcely 1 lin. long, rounded at the apex. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, in wet marshes, Niven ! 
Imperfectly known species. 
10. M. floccosa (Knight, Prot. 65); stem 4—5 ft. high, with long 
branches ; leaves 7-8 lin. long, 4—6 lin. broad, elliptic, entire, very 
pubescent ; perianth-segments thinly bearded towards the apex. 
Coast RxaIon : Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holland, Masson. 
Known to us only from the description. Masson’s specimen appears to be lost. 
