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sessiles. Corolla fere 11 cm. diametro, lobis 5 cm. longis bas i 
latis in caudas lineari-filiformes gradatim attenuatis 
extra glabris viridibus intus albo-villosis viridibus basi ag sce 
maculatis, reticulatis, tubo campanulato 5 mm. longo 4 m 
diametro extra glabro purpureo intus fauce purpureo- ieee: 
Corona cupularis, viridis, dentibus 10 intus ad apicem nea 
retrorsum barbatis praedita, et quinquelobata, lobis 1-25 m 
longis lineari-oblongis apice rotundatis incumbentibus 
TropicaL ArricA. Uganda: grown in the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew, from a tuber received from Entebbe, and described 
from the living plant, in flower 6.6.1919. 
1680. Mimetes Stokoei, Phillips et Hutchinson {Proteaceae- 
Proteeae;] M. sazxatili, Phillips, affinis, sed perianthii lobis 
villosis et stigmatibus multo majoribus differt. 
Rami. villosi, densissime foliati. Folia ovata vel ovato- 
elliptica 6-6-5 cm. longa, 3-3-5 cm. lata, apice inaequaliter 
3-dentata, raro integra, basi piloso-villosa, utrinque pilis sericeis 
appressis dense induta. Capitula sessilia 7 em. longa, 10—12-flora, 
ad apices ramorum dense conferta. Involucri bracteae 3—4-seriatae, 
ovatae, oblongae vel lineares, obtusae, 1-3-2 cm. longae, 4-9 mm. 
latae, supra villosae, ciliatae. Perianthii lobi 4 cm. longi, basi 
lati, villosi; limbus 9 mm. longus, linearis, villosus. Antherae 
5 mm. longae, lineares, apice glandulis 0-5 mm. longis ovatis 
subobtusis instructae. Squamae hypogynae 2 mm. longae, lineares. 
Ovarium 1 mm. longum, villosum; stylus 5-5 em. longus, flavus, 
glaber; stigma 3 mm. longum, nigrum, apice ovoideo-globosum, 
rostratum, glabrum, basi paullo verrucosum. 
Sourn Arrica. Caledon Division: Hottentots Holland 
Mountains; near Hangklip, Feb. ee T. P. Stokoe in.S. Afr. 
Nat. Herb. 1642. 
An exceptionally handsome species; in the living plant the 
styles are bright yellow and stigmas black; the leaves are very 
erect and hide the branches. 
XXXII.—_MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mayor T. F. Cuter, M.C., B.Sc., Deputy Conservator of 
Forests, Gold Coast, since 1921, and formerly Assistant Director 
of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore (K. B. 1914, 227), has been 
appointed Assistant Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 
Kew. (See also K.B. 1909, 424; 1910, 132). 
Mr. M. T. Dawes, F.L.S., has been appointed by the Secretary 
of State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, 
Commissioner of Lands and Forests, Sierra Leone. (See also 
K.B. 1902, 24; 1911, 65; 1915, 306.) 
