212 i M. SEEMANN’S JOURNAL. 
400; in 1845-46, Collection IIT., with Nos. 250-300; in 1848, Col- 
lection IV., Nos. 250-300 and 500-700. In 1848 £wo sets arrived, 
the former of which belongs perhaps to the Collection III. ; in 1850 
Collection V., Nos. 394-423. This is the last series in Mr. Shuttle- 
worth's Collection ; but Dr. Lemann had, in 1850, a * Supplement to 
Collection V.,” and Mr. Kippist informs me of still another series 
received about the end of 1850, which I have not seen. Meisn. 
Abstract of a Journal kept during the voyage of H.M.S. Herald; 
by BERTHOLD SEEMANN. 
(Continued from p. 92.) 
The passage from India to the Cape of Good Hope had been so 
short that the mind still retained a lively impression of the former. 
What a contrast was thus produced! Instead of the dense jungle 
there appeared a ridge of mountains but thinly covered with verdure ; 
instead of the large foliage of the tropics, low, hard-leaved bushes; in- 
stead of the noble timber, no trees except those taken by man under 
his particular care ; and instead of the elegant festoons of airy Rattans, 
the leafless Vrouwenhaar (Cassyta filiformis, Linn.), which, as if to 
humble the pride of that tribe from which poets are wont to select 
their wreath, hangs slovenly over the branches of the Rhus glabra. 
Nevertheless, to a European the Cape flora presents a most pleasing 
aspect. He is no longer perplexed, as in the forests of equinoctial 
America or Asia, by the curious habits and strange foliage of the 
Vegetation, but meets at every step forms which: have for centuries, not 
only been cultivated in botanic gardens, but have become naturalized 
in every cottage of his native soil; the Heaths, the Ice-plants, the 
Geraniums, the Callas, and many others are welcome sights, recalling 
to mind many a happy scene; and even the botanist, if on one hand 
. he must regret that he fails to discover additional genera and species, 
. on the other, cannot but rejoice that his favourite science has already 
made such progress as to render so remote a portion of the globe, in 
aspect at least, familiar. i ak 
The neighbourhood of Simon’s Town consists of a ridge of rugged 
mountains which are chiefly composed of sandstone, and present, es- 
pecially during the dry season, the time of our visit, a barren and un- 
