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Besides this I gathered on the hills near Jagersbosch the following plants :— 
Leucospermum attenuatum. 
Erica curviftrora. Pteronia acerosa De C. 
E. elongata. Heteromorpha arborescens De C. 
Priestleya hirsuta. Pelargonium cortusifolium. 
Lanaria plumosa. Aspalathus, sp 
(G) At the time when I was there, the environs of Port Elizabeth were very 
barren of plants, with the exception of the succulent kinds, which will bear 
almost any degree of heat and drought. The principal rarities which I 
noticed were Helichrysum xeranthemoides De C., (a beautiful Everlasting with 
bright carmine-coloured and white flowers) Nemesia linearis, Barleria pungens 
Spr. (which is Harvey's Crabbea pungens). Aspalathus adelphia E. and Z., 
Tulbaghia violacea. 
(H) The Acacia Caffra, a much handsomer tree than the horrida, appeared 
for the first time on the banks of the Zwartkops, but I saw it afterwards in far 
greater abundance on the rivers of the Caffer frontier, (the Great Fish River, 
the Kat, Koonap, aud others,) where it grows to a very large size, and has a 
beautiful appearance. Its leaves are most delicately feathered, and its flowers 
form long spikes of a fine sulphur colour. 
A beautiful Loranthus (L. glaucus), with flowers shaped somewhat like 
those of a honey-suckle, but of a most vivid orange-scarlet, grows parasiti- 
cally on the branches of the Acacias near Uitenhage, and in several parts of 
the bush. 
The beds of loose shingle which have been left in some places by inundations 
of the Zwartkops, abound with the Gomphocarpus fruticosus, a tall half shrubby 
plant, with willow-like leaves, white flowers, and large, inflated, prickly pods ; 
it is common in similar situations about most of the rivers of the Eastern 
Province, and as far west as the Gauritz ; and is sometimes cultivated in gar- 
dens at Cape Town, where it is called the flowering willow. 
Mr. Zeyher, a most acute and indefatigable botanical collector, who resides 
near Uitenhage, has found avast number of new and curious plants on the 
banks of the Zwartkops River, and in the bush country beyond it. ; 
(I) Besides those which I have enumerated in the text, the following may be 
mentioned as some of the most duriter. plants of the bush : — 
Pelargonium peltatum. 
Rhigozum trichotomum, Burch. (chiefly near the Fish River.) 
Grewia flava, De C. 
Plumbago Capensis. 
Senecio longifolius, De C. 
Arduina bispinosa. 
Tecoma Capensis (especially beyond the Fish River). 
Hamiltonia Capensis, Harv, 
Belonites bispinosa, E. Mey. 
Crassula perforata. 
(To be continued.) 
