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Named after Dr. S. F. Harmer, F.R.S., Keeper of the Zoological 
Department of the Natural History Museum, who collected “this 
Protea during the visit of the British Association to S. Africa 
in 1905. 
Dr. Harmer reports : “I think it was a low bush, not more than 
three feet high. To the best of my recollection the bracts of the 
involucre — . . were of a decided brick-red colour, The 
‘flower’ struck me as s being quite different from that of any other 
Protea I had seen ; and I saw nothing like it afterwards. 
1184, Protea transvaalensis, Phillips [Proteaceae - Rigen 
affinis P. Mundii, Klotzsch, a qua capitulo glabro differ 
Rami giabri. Cortex niger, superne cinereus. Fo ie 3°8-10°2 
em. longa, 2-3°2 em. lata, lanceolata vel obovato-lanceolata, apice 
obtusa, basi angustata, distincte pinnato-venosa, glabra, marginibus 
membranaceis. Capitula (immatura) sessilia, 4°5-5 cm. longa, 
Involucri.bracteae 10-seriatae ; exteriores ovatae, subacutae vel 
subobtusae, inferne minute pubescentes, vel glabrae, aliquando 
pilis paucis ciliatae ; interiores oblongae, apice obtusae, concavae, 
labrae vel superne minute pubescentes, aliquando pilis - paucis 
ciliatae. Calycis tubus 1°5 em. longus, basi dilatatus, 9-nervis, 
glaber ; laminae 1°5 em. longae, majores apice dentatae, glabrae, 
minores grosse pilosae ; dentes laterales 1°75 mm. longi, oblongi, 
hirsuti, apice ciliati ; dens medius 1 mm. longus, stifiatior. Stamina 
subsessilia, 1 cm. longa ; filamenta concava ; antherae lineares apice 
glandulis 0°33 mm, longis ovatis tumidis instructae. Squamae 
hy ypogynae O°4 mm. longae, 0°33 mm, latae, oblongae, apice 
obtusae. Ovarium 2 mm. longum, odlongum, pilis longis vestitum ; 
stylus 1°5 em. longus, linearis, glaber; stigma 1 cm. longum, 
filiforme, sus apice obtusum et minute spel Ne tare basi 
paullo sinu 
Sours ee Transvaal : Goedgeluk, Zaaigiaieciend: Burtt- 
Davy, 5179. 
This is a very distinct species unlike any other which I have 
seen. In the colour of the bark and shape of the leaves it 
approaches P. Mundii, Klotzsch, but differs from this species by the 
glabrous or slightly pubescent not woolly involucre-scales. 
1185, Mimetes saxatilis, Phillips [Proteaceae-Proteeae] ; species 
distincta, ex affinitate M. palustris, Knight, sed stigmate obtuso et 
bracteis coriaceis differt. 
mi tomentosi vel breviter villosi. Folia 3- 4 em, longa, 1*8-3°2 
em. lata, elliptica, obovata vel suborbicularia, obtusa, apice integra 
vel tridentata, dentibus obtusis, basi subcordata, indistincte 5-6- 
nervia, dense pubescentia, albo-ciliata. Capitula axillaria, sessilia, 
2 cm. longa, 10-12-flora, apice ramorum conferta. Involucri 
bracteae soar = oblongae, lanceolatae, vel ovatae, subacumi- 
natae, acutae, coriaceae, rugosae, aliquid pubescentes, ciliatae. 
Calycis tubus 2 mm. longus, glaber, superne ciliatus ; lobi 2°5 em. 
longi, lineari-spathulati, dense pilosi parte apicali dilatata 3 mm. 
longa oblongo-lineari subacuta glabra excepta. Stamina sessilia, 
4 mm, longa; filamenta oblonga, tumida, sulcata ; antherae 2 mm. 
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