1810. 
EXOTIC PLANTS. 
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able indigenous plants are sometimes admitted to the honor of 
a place in their gardens * : but in none are any of the elegant tribe 
of heaths ever seen under cultivation ; and it is a curious fact, that, 
among the colonists, these have not even a name, but, when spoken 
of, are indiscriminately called bosjes (bushes). Although the Dutch 
language has a word to express heath, yet, whenever I made use of 
it in conversation with the farmers, it seemed always to be unin- 
telligible. Objects of natural history, such as birds, insects, seeds, 
and bulbs, the produce of the colony, are collected for sale by an in- 
genious Frenchman of the name of Villet ; but, besides these, I saw 
no where any thing of tlie kind, excepting at the house of Mr. Mack- 
Camellia Japonica 
Passijlora ccerulea 
Canna Indica 
Phoenix dactylifcra 
Casuarina strida 
Poinciana pidch ci lima 
Clitoria Ternatea 
Polianthes tuber osa 
Cqffea Arahica 
Rosa, sevei'al kinds 
Crinum enibesce?is ? 
Rosmarinus officinalis 
Daphne Indica 
Sambucus nigra 
Hibisms inutahilis 
Tabernccmo7itana 
Embothrium sericeum 
Tropceolum Nasturtium 
Eugenia Jambos 
Vinca rosea 
Heliotropium Pcruvianum 
Bambusa arundinacca 
Hydrangea mutabilis 
Pinus Pinaster 
Mangifera Indica 
Pinus Pinca 
Mespihis Japonica 
Popidus canescens 
Mirabilisjala pa 
Curcuma longa 
Myrtus communis 
Cassia multiglandulosa 
Parlcinsonia aculeata 
Cassia corymbosa. 
This list is given merely from memory ; and the addition of nearly as many more 
names might possibly render it complete. 
The last plant had been introduced by myself, about three years before, into 
Mr. Hesse's garden, whence it had found its way into almost every other, and was now 
become a favourite shrub. ' 
* Such as — 
Calodendrum Capense 
Gardenia Thunbergia 
Gardenia Rothmannia 
Strelitzia regince 
Amaryllis purpurea 
Cyrtanthus obliquus 
Virgilia Capensis 
Erythrina Cajfia 
Aloe plicatilis 
Solanum giganteum. 
and a few others. 
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