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leaves, and pods about six inches long ; it was not more than a foot 

 and a half high, but had a creeping root, and spread over much 

 ground; it had much the general aspect of a handsome fern." — p. 199. 



Pappea capensis. — " In the evening, accompanied by John Read 

 and two other boys, I visited a steep wood, contiguous to the river, to 

 see the tree known in the Colony by the name of Pruim, or Caffer- 

 plum (Pappea capeiisis). It attains to forty feet in height, and has 

 pinnate leaves and spiked flowers. The fruit is about an inch long, 

 and has a thick, orange-red skin, covering a thin, viscid, pleasantly 

 acid pulp, of a flavour like the Tahitian-apple (Spondias dulcis), 

 which the tree greatly resembles. There is also now ripe in the woods 

 a small oval, red berry, called zuur bezy, sour-berry; it is of moderate 

 and sweetish flavour when thoroughly matured, and is produced by a 

 thick bush, having small leaves and opposite, straight, green thoms." 

 —p. 205. 



Euphorbia grandidens. — "At a short distance from the house 

 there is a remarkable copse, consisting chiefly of the chandelier Eu- 

 phorbia {Euphorbia gradidens) . The leaves of this tree are confined 

 to the young portions of the shoots, and are so small as to pass almost 

 unnoticed. The thick, erect, angular, green stems seem to form its 

 verdure, and its trunk, which may be thirty feet high, is, in some in- 

 stances, as thick as a man's waist. At this place I first noticed a 

 small species of coral-tree (Erythrina) ; it was about a yard high, and 

 bore long spikes of large, crimson, pea-like flowers. It is scattered 

 thinly over this part of CafFraria." — p. 226. 



Phoenix reclinata. — " In some of the narrow, woody valleys about 

 the Kap Hivier, and the adjacent parts of Albany, the Little Date 

 (Phoenix reclinata) , abounds ; it has pectinate leaves, and attains to 

 about ten feet in height. It is a highly ornamental little palm, and 

 frequently bears the name of coffee-tree, because of the form and size 

 of its seeds, which nevertheless are not available for the purposes of 

 coffee. Children eat the thin, sweet coating of the fruit." — p. 293. 



Strelitzia, fyc. — " Our road lay, for a considerable distance, along 

 the bottom of the deep, woody ravine of the Kowie, in which a species 

 of Angrecum ? was growing as an epiphyte upon the trees, and exhi- 

 biting its small, yellow blossoms. The beautiful Strelitzia regina was 

 abundantly in flower on the north side of the ravine : it is very plen- 

 tiful in this country, growing in large tufts among the bushes. Its 

 leaves have a flag-like appearance, they are spoon-shaped, and on 

 stout footstalks ; its singular orange blossoms, three inches long, with 

 purple, tongue-like anthers, are produced from the upper side of a 



