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PROTEACEAE 



Protea rosacea. This graceful little shrublet, which flowers in spring, is 

 not unfrequent on the mountains of Tulbagh, Ceres and Wellington. No 

 painting can adequately render its beauty, the bracts are a deep claret colour, 

 translucent and particularly beautiful when illuminated by the sun. 



Leaves acerose, mucronate, closely set ; flower-heads solitary, terminal, 

 hemispherical and pendulous. Involucral bracts glabrous, the outer ones 

 ovate and subacute, the inner ones narrow-oblong, obtuse, longer than the 

 flowers. Named ScliaambliHiii on account of the drooping flower-heads. 



Fig. 77. Protea Mundtii Klotzsch April. Mountains near Stellenbosch. 3500 feet 



Photo, by E. Dyke 



Protea Mundtii. This species forms shrubs 4 — 6 feet high on the 

 mountains of Stellenbosch and Paarl, flowering in winter. Our coloured 

 figure shows the head a little more opened than it is in reality. Like other 

 species it is visited by various beetles, one of the most frequent visitors being 

 Trichostetha capensis. Not rarely also the larger species, T. fasctcularis, which 

 has a metallic green body and tufts of golden brown fur, is found on this and 

 other species of Protea or Leucospermum. (See Plate 31.) 



