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8000 and 9000 feet the giant Senecios are met with 
(a new species, illustrated in Chapter XIII.), and con¬ 
tinue upwards till near the borders of the snow. 
Gorgeous crimson gladioli, pale pink and mauve and 
cerulean blue irises, grow to great altitudes; indeed, 
some of the flowers of the grassy uplands between 
Bunch of Fruit of M. Ensete. 
Fig. 64. 
Single Fruit. Half natural size. 
10,000 and 14,000 feet, are particularly brilliant in 
colour. There are vivid blue cynoglossums, the blush- 
pink everlastings, the yellow euryops, the strange 
straw-coloured proteas, with red bracts and red-leaf 
shoots, the smalt-coloured lobelias ( L . Declceni), and 
many others which it would be tedious to catalogue. 
