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WILD FLOWERS. 
7—8. Dec. 
^th. On the following day we took a walk on the Lion's Rump, 
and added forty-three more species to my Herbarium, although the 
earth was quite parched up by the sun. Many beautiful flowers, 
well known in the choicer collections in England, grow wild on this 
mountain, as the heath and the primrose on the commons and sunny 
banks of our own country. * 
In the afternoon I paid a visit of introduction to the Landdrost, 
from whom I experienced the same politeness which I had hitherto 
every where met with. In his garden I noticed a beautiful tree 
of Oleander, above ten feet high, decorated with a profusion of 
rosy flowers, and a large shrub of Cassia corymbosa, loaded with 
bunches of blossom. This house, delightfully placed in the midst of 
gardens and plantations, in the country behind the town, towards 
Table Mountain, commands an extensive view of the Bay and distant 
mountains, with a great part of the town. In the aviary, I saw the 
Touracoo-]-, called Loeri by the colonists; the Kaffers Fink^; the 
Canary § and the Paddy-bird. \\ 
Sth. At this time Cape Town afforded scarcely any public amuse- 
ments, the theatre being shut up for want of performers. An occa- 
* Such as — 
Phlomis [Leonitis) Leonuriis 
Indigofera psoralo'ides 
Gladiolus alopecuroides 
Pelargonium pinnatum 
Cyanella Capensis 
Pelargonium melananthum 
Pelargonium lohatum 
Ceropegia tenuifolia 
Echium argenteum 
Aristea cyanea 
Lessertia pulchra. Bot. Mag. 
Kncwltonia hirsuta 
Oxalis monophylla ; 
Together with — 
Physalis tomentosa 
Ceanothus Africamts 
Montinia acris 
Alopccurus Capensis 
Cuscuta Africana 
Mohria thurifraga 
Stachys Ethiopica 
Pharnaceum incanum 
Gorteria personata 
Lepidium Capense Th. 
Stobcca atractylo'ides, 
and many others. 
f Corythaix, 111. Cumulus Persa, Linn. 
:j: Emberiza longicauda, et Loxia Caffra, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. Gmel. 
§ Fringilla Canaria. Linn. || Loxia oryzivwa. Linn. 
