360 Plants found in the District of Uitenhage* 



Acacia, Capparis Hibiscus, Sida, Ochna, Bignoniaceae, Plum- 

 bago, parasitical Orchideae, Zamia, Dioscorea, Sanseviera, 

 Scaevola, Croton, Loranthus, Acanthaceae, and Gardenia. 



As regards the Coronariae of this Flora, they are equal in 

 number to that of the other districts, but are distinguished by 

 the higher tints of a warmer climate. Several families and 

 genera of them, which are either not found at all, or of which 

 but few species appear in the Cape Flora, come forth here 

 either in single or multifarious forms ; for instance, Marsilia, 

 Podocarpus, Aloe, Eucomis, Strelitzia, Paronychia, Achyran- 

 thes, Urticeae, Euphorbiaceae, Teucrium, Ocymum, Helio- 

 tropium, Solanum, Convolvulus, Jasminum, Buddleja, Ascle- 

 piadeae, Apocyneae, Cacalia, Tarchonanthus, Viscum, Vitis, 

 Bupleurum, Rhamnus, Ceanothus, Ilex, Calodendron, Hyperi- 

 cum, Acharia, etc. A most striking feature in this district i3 

 the abundance of many of the European water plants, viz. : 

 Chara, Typha, Potamogeton, Myriophyllum, which are found 

 but rarely in the other districts. About one-fifth of the plants 

 found at the fore-mentioned stations, are also met with in the 

 Cape district, and the other four-fifths are different. 



With the hope that this list may be of some use, as furnish- 

 ing a general view of the Flora of a particular district, I give 

 it, filled up only so far as I have yet been able to arrange 

 my collection. 



The number of species of each genus found in the district, 

 are marked after the genus itself, and only the names of such 

 species are inserted, as I have yet had time to examine. 



In the systematic classification I have followed if. Sprengcl's 

 General View of the Vegetable Kingdom, according to the 

 Natural Affinities. Sprengel has adopted one hundred fami- 

 lies, and reduced severals others adopted by late Botanists, to 

 sub-divisions of families, to which they bear, he thinks, a 

 near affinity. It is most remarkable that, of the hundred 

 families under which all the known plants of the globe are 

 classed, there are not above twelve which have not several, 

 or at least one genus, growing in the district of Uitenhage ; 

 and from this the richness and variety of the South African 

 Flora in general, may be conceived. The whole number of 

 the respective species found by me in the district of Uitenhage, 

 is about 1640, and as I have been only able to examine the 

 fore-named stations, it may be concluded that a great number 

 more will be found in the other parts of the district. 



The description of the nero species will be communicated 

 from time to time, if desirable for the Institution. 



Cape Town, August, 1830. 



