Plate 36. 

 MIMETES palustris. 



Cape Province. 



Peoteaceae. Tribe Peoteeae. 

 Mimetes, Salisb, ; Benth. et HooJc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 171. 



Mimetes palustris, Knight, Prot. p. 66, excl. syn. Boerh. ; Fl. Cap. vol. v. 



sect. 1, p. 649. 



We have much pleasure in figuring this species, one of the 

 many botanical rarities which have recently been brought to 

 the notice of South African botanists by Mr. T. P. Stokoe. 



Mr. Stokoe collected the specimens in August, 1920, 

 between Hermanus and Stanford in the Caledon District. 

 They were growing on damp slopes of shallow soil overlaying 

 quartzite, with a southern aspect. In the locality the plant 

 is extremely rare. 



As far as we are aware this is the first record of the species 

 since it was collected by Niven. 



The common species of Mimetes (M. lyrigera, Knight) is 

 known as the " Eooi Stompie," and as the above species is 

 confined to damp habitats we propose the name " Water 

 Stompie " for it. 



Desckiption : — A small shrub about 24 cm. high. Branches 

 pilose. Leaves more or less imbricated, l'7-2"5 cm. long, 

 7-9 mm. broad, the leaves subtending the flowers broader, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, sub-acute, villous, ciHate with long hairs on 

 the margins. Heads longer than the leaves, 3-5 flowered. 

 Outer involucral bracts about 2*2 cm. long, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, villous. Perianth hairy; the limb densely setose. 

 Style with a dilated ring at the base of the stigma, glabrous. 



Plate 36. — Fig. 1, plant natural size ; Fig. 2, a single flower ; Fig 3, a 

 single perianth segment; Fig. 4, limb of perianth; Fig. 5, style; Fig. 6, 

 stigma. 



F.P.S.A., 1921. 



