DESCRIPTION:--An herbaceous plant 24-40 cm. high with one or more stems arising from the apex of a stout deep underground root. _Stem_ terete, faintly furrowed, covered with short glandular hairs. _Leaves_ 2-4 cm. long, ·6-1 cm. broad, lanceolate or lanceolate-ovate, obtuse, tapering upwards from a broad base, sometimes slightly narrowed at the base, with a prominent midrib and two faint lateral nerves more distinct on the upper surface, punctate-glandular on both surfaces, and with glandular hairs beneath, ciliate with glandular hairs. _Flower head_ solitary at the ends of the stems. _Peduncle_ 6-10 cm. long, terete, furrowed, glandular-pubescent. _Involucral-scales_ in 2 rows, somewhat connate at the base, 1·3-2 cm. long, ovate, acuminate, acute with membranous margins, glandular-pubescent. _Receptacle_ 7 mm. broad, convex, hollow. _Ray florets_ female. _Corolla-tube_ 2 mm. long, cylindric, glandular-pilose; limb 2 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, linear, 3-toothed at the apex, glandular-pilose on the back at the base. _Style_ as long as the corolla-tube. _Disc florets_ hermaphrodite. _Corolla-tube_ 5 mm. long, cylindric, constricted and narrower near the base, sparsely covered with glandular hairs on the broader portion of the tube; lobes 2 mm. long, almost 1 mm. broad, lanceolate, obtuse. _Filaments_ 4 mm. long, linear; anthers 3·5 mm. long, with deep golden-yellow pollen. _Pappus_ none. _Ovary_ 3 mm. long, flattened, winged and 2-horned at the apex; style 6 mm. long, cylindric; lobes 1 mm. long, truncate at the apex. _Fruit_ 1·5 cm. long, flattened, orbicular, with a circular wing. * * * * * PLATE 57.--Fig. 1, whole plant showing habit (reduced); Fig. 2, flower bud; Fig. 3, disk flower; Fig. 4, ray flower with ovary removed. F.P.S.A., 1922. [Illustration: _58._ K. A. Lansdell del.] PLATE 58. MIMETES CAPITULATA. _Cape Province._ * * * * * PROTEACEAE. Tribe PROTEAE. MIMETES, _Salisb._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant._ vol. iii. p. 171 (partly). * * * * * =Mimetes capitulata=, _R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc._ vol. x. p. 106; _Fl. Cap._ vol. v. sect. i. p. 644. * * * * *