Cytinus sanguineus, was growing from the roots of an Eriocephalus, 

 a little, hoary, Aster-like bush." — p. 85. 



Cape Flats. — " Many pretty flowers decked this portion of the 

 Cape Flats. Among them were a pink Watsonia, resembling a corn- 

 flag, a yellow, Iris-like Moraea, an orange Gazania, and a few pink 

 and white Mesembryanthemums, somewhat of the form of marigolds." 

 —p. 88. 



Heaths. — "The Cape Flats are generally sandy, but beds of im- 

 pure limestone occur upon them. They are thinly covered with low 

 bushes and herbaceous plants. Various species of heath, Erica, grow 

 upon them ; some of these are very beautiful, but they do not cover 

 the country as in some parts of England ; most of them are thinly 

 scattered. A yellow, fetid Corycium, and several fragrant species of 

 Satyrium, plants of the Orchis tribe, were abundant : the latter were 

 green, white and orange." — p. 89. 



Erica Massonia. — " The new road is cut out of the sandstone, and 

 has a toll upon it. Along its sides, and on the top of the mountain 

 there are many beautiful shrubs and plants, among which the most 

 striking are Proteas, heaths, everlastings, Gladiolas, Watsonias, 

 Ixias, and plants of the Orchis tribe. The beautiful Erica Massonia 

 was growing on a springy hillock by the side of the road. Seeing it 

 reminded me of having heard of one of the early collectors of plants 

 in this country going out to seek it, and meeting some oxen with a 

 wagon, having this fine heath, with its large, waxy blossoms, of red 

 and green, fastened to their heads to drive off the flies." — p. 91. 



Helichrysum proliferum. — " In the course of the day 1 walked to 

 the top of a hill, on which Helichrysum proliferum, a beautiful, crim- 

 son everlasting, was growing in profusion among low rocks of ferru- 

 ginous sandstone. The plants were about the size of gooseberry 

 bushes, covered with flowers, and as fine as I ever saw them when 

 highly cultivated in an English greenhouse. This is not generally 

 the case with wild shrubs : they are broken by storms and cattle, and 

 overgrown one by another in the situations where they grow naturally, 

 but when cultivated they are carefully protected from injury. — At 

 dinner we partook of the boiled flower-stems of Aponogeton dista- 

 chyon, which were very palatable ; they are called in the Colony 

 water uyentjes, water onions.' 1 '' — p. 101. 



Juncus serratus. — " The margins of this river are choked, in many 

 places, with a remarkable rush, Juncus serratus, called in the Colony 

 "Palmit, Palmetto:'''' it has broad, keeled, and sharply seriated 

 leaves, and a stout rootstock or trunk, which sometimes attains to five 



