249 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS 
We left this interesting region near the end of July, 
returning to New York by way of Raleigh, Richmond, &c. ; 
and found a marked change in the vegetation immediately on 
crossing the Blue Ridge. I cannot extend these remarks to 
the plants gathered on our homeward journey, except to 
mention that the Schrankia of this part of the country, which 
is found as far as the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge, is the 
S. angustata, (Torr and Gr.) ; at least, we observed no other 
species. This is doubtless the S. uncinata of De Candolle ; 
but not, I think, of Willdenow: I may here observe, that the 
reticulated-leaved species, (S. wncinata, Torr. and Gr.) is 
the Leptoglottis of De Candolle, (Mém. Légum.) as I have 
ascertained from a fragment of the original specimen in the 
rich herbarium of Mr. Webb, obligingly sent by that gen- 
tleman. But I find no neutral flowers or sterile filaments in 
the numerous specimens of this plant, from different loca- 
lities, which I have, from time to time, examined. 
Botanical Excursions in Sourn AFRICA, by 
C. J. F. Bunsury, Esa. 
(Continued from page 41 of vol. II.) 
3. Graham's Town and its Neighbourhood.—Fish River Bush. 
Animals.— Excursion into Cafferland.—Interviews with the 
Chiefs of the Tslambie, Congo, and Gaika Tribes.—Fort 
Armstrong.— The Kat River and Fort Beaufort.— Physical 
Characteristics of the Hottentots. 
Granam’s Town, the second town of the colony in point 
of size and (at present) of importance, is an ugly ill-built 
place, very inferior in appearance to Uitenhage and Zwellen- 
dam, and looking like a bad imitation of an English town. It 
is situated in a hollow, surrounded by long flat-topped hills of 
moderate height and gentle slope, which are here and there 
rocky, but for the most part covered with short grass. No- 
thing can be tamer or more unpicturesque than the outlines p 
of these hills, and on a general view the country appears very — — 
