568 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS 
Cuscuta. Viborgia obcordata. 
Passerina uniflora. Dianthus incurvus 'Th. 
Cassytha filiformis. Sphenogyne tenuifolia. 
Drosera cistiflora, Corymbium, 2 sp. 
I do not mean that all these plants are confined to the Flats: several of them, 
on the contrary, are to be found in plenty on the hills and rough ground im- 
mediately behind the town, such as Roella ciliata, the two Lobelius comprised 
in this list, Aristea cyanea, and the Cassytha. This last, which is very common 
t the Cape, is a singular plant, approaching near to the Sweet T: in the 
be of its flowers, but in mode of growth and general appearance, re- 
sembling the Cuscuta, or Dodder; its slender, leafless, yellow, t SESCH 
stems, spread far and wide over the bushes, and load them with a strange kind 
of web. 
The Lobelia (Parastranthus) lutea, a very general plant in the environs of 
Cape Town, varies much, not only in size and in the direction of its stems, 
but in the form of its leaves, which, in a variety abundant on the Flats, are 
very narrow, and without the marginal teeth observable in the more usual 
state of the plant. 
e Drosera cistiflora, one of the most beautiful of its tribe, is not a marsh 
plant like most of the other Drosere, but remarkably indifferent to soil and 
iesus RO in dry as wellas in wet places, on hard clay and gravel as 
well a sand. Drosera Capensis, another handsome species, occurs fre- 
pur in swampy spots on the sides of Table Mountain ; and there are others 
less conspicuous. 
(G) The following are some of the interesting plants which are to be found 
in the Kloof and on the adjacent slopes of the mountains : 
Diosma ( Adenandra ) ssim Erica flexuosa. 
Hermannia multiflora Protea Sage 
H. alnifoiia, Zei 
H. euni Rao 
ifolia. 
— verticillata, Pelargonium Zeg orum. 
Disperis Capensis, var.-flavescens, (D. ebe Poi dd 
See (Harv.) diolus Watsonius. 
(H) On this side of the Devil's Mountain, at an elevation from 1,500 to 
2,000 feet above the sea, I gathered the following plants : 
Anemone Capensis. Nycterinia dentata. 
Lobelia pinifolia, Heliophila—? 
Knowltonia hirsuta. Othonna pinnata. 
Penea squamosa. Lessertia pulchra. 
Erica lutea, var, alba. Printzia Bergii. 
Pterygodium Caffrum. Ehrharta longiflora. 
Ixia conica, Leucadendron sali, 
A. scillaris. 
