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low, commonly cultivated in England, but a distinct species, very similar in its 
mode of growth, and almost equally beautiful, 
(C) I must say, that I never saw a Caffer resembling the portrait which is 
given in Dr. Pritchard's work on the History of Mankind (ed. 3, vol. 2, plate 5); 
it may have been like some one individual, but it is by no means a characteris- 
tic specimen of the race, 
It is a curious fact, stated in that work, that the Caffer language resembles 
the Coptic, in forming the tenses of verbs, and the numbers and cases of nouns, 
by prefixed syllables, not by changes of termination as in the European lan- 
guages. The prefix ma, in the Caffer tongue, marks the plural number, as in 
Amokosah the plural of Kosah; and they have a great variety of other prefixes. 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Swan Hiver Botany. 
The late letters from Mr. Drummond have brought the 
following information respecting Swan River Botany. 
“ By a ship now about to sail (January 16th, 1843), I send 
two fine species of Anigozanthus, collected by my son in the 
Vicinity of the Moore River. Of the golden-flowered kind 
gave some account before;* it is highly beautiful, and, 
though approaching 24. flavida in character, is readily distin- 
guishable from all the varieties of that truly protean plant, by 
its sickle-shaped, hairy leaves. The dark-flowering one, of 
which but two specimens have ever been found in bloom, is 
à real mourning-flower; the upper portion of its stem and 
lower portion of the corolla being covered as with a black 
velvet ; the corolla is deeply cleft and expands about 2 inches. 
is species is not allied to any other Anigozanthus yet dis- 
Covered in the Swan River settlement. 
During my journey to the South, it came to my knowledge 
that the natives use the tuberous roots of Anigozanthus flavida 
* See vol. i, p. 627-8, for a description of this and several other beauti- 
ful species of Anigozanthus, ; 
