The common species of Mimetes (M. lyrigera, Knight) is known as the “Rooi Stompie,” and as the above species is confined to damp habitats we propose the name “Water Stompie” for it.
Description:—A small shrub about 24 cm. high. Branches pilose. Leaves more or less imbricated, 1·7-2·5 cm. long, 7-9 mm. broad, the leaves subtending the flowers broader, elliptic-lanceolate, sub-acute, villous, ciliate 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.
