116 BOTANICAL. INFORMATION. 



Leaving the Adow hill, we entered the Quaggas' flat, 

 which is generally covered with good pasturage, and is 

 about seven miles in length ; it is encircled with low hills, 

 thinly shaded by the Acacia Capensis ; on the roots of which 

 the curious parasite, the Sarcophyte sanguinea, grows, 

 showing through the carpet of green its red stem and 

 flowers. Several troops of spring-boks, bounding in the 

 air, when our dogs chased them, and seeming as if they 

 never touched the ground, were the first we saw of that 

 kind since we left Uitenhage. After quitting the flat, it is 

 only a short distance to the Bushman's River, which we 

 crossed the next day, and ascended the Bushman's River 

 hill, where we stopped one night. The Cephalandra quin- 

 gueloba, several Ceropegice, Cacalia scandens, and Senecio 

 deltoideus are the climbing plants in these thickets, together 

 with some Apocynece. On a moist spot, not far from 

 our camp, appeared Ophioglosmm Capense, but without 

 perfect fructification ; and also Mar sy piolepis Zey fieri, (Harv.); 

 while some calcareous plants, viz. Jjyperia microphylla and 

 pinnatifida, Pilothamnus, &c, indicated the presence of lime- 

 stone on the sides of the hill. In the thickets were Sida triloba 

 and Sonneratiana, Gnidia linioides, Plectranthus Thunbergih 

 hirtus, Ocymum serpyllifolium, the * prevailing herbs in the 

 shade, besides many succulent plants, as Crassula lactea, 

 cordata, and perforata, Cotyledon ramosissimum, and several 

 species. of Drimia, Hypoxis, Ornithogalum, Sanseviera, and 

 others. 



We obtained an extensive view from that hill over the sur- 

 rounding country ; with a considerable part of the Zuureberg 

 range, running from north-west to south-east, and which 

 we had to pass. The character of the soil and its vege- 

 tation changed soon after we left that place, and passed 

 the small village of Tidburg close to the right hand. I* 

 was several hours before we entered the principal part 

 of the mountain, the first beginning of it is called the Zwart- 

 choogde, where greater masses of rocks appear more fre- 

 quently, chiefly sandstone. The spomcea crassipes, (Hook.), 



