1 The design of the dial represents The King Protea (Protea cynaroides), the national flower of South Africa.

2 For instance, the protea beetle ( Trichostetha fascicularis ) gathers nectar from various species of proteas.

3 Surely the best known protea, prized worldwide as a magnificent cut flower and in South Africa honoured as the national flower.

4 Allose is an aldohexose sugar. It is a rare monosaccharide that has been isolated from the leaves of the African shrub Protea rubropilosa.

5 The acetylation and deacetylation of histone is charged by a pair of protea se with antistatic function on each other, which are histone transacetylase and histone deacetylase.