1811. 
BUSHMEN'S UYENTJES. 
417 
and, at the same time, a present of uyentjes. This is a colonial name 
in very general use, and is applied to several kinds of small eatable 
bulbs. None of those in question were larger than a hazle-nut, and 
were cased in several thin brown husks. They are usually slightly 
roasted in the embers ; but in taste are inferior, being less sweet than 
the others, which are chiefly the bulbs of plants of the EnsatcB order. 
The present plant was a species of Cyperus-grass hitherto unde- 
scribed. * . 
Our rush-merchants were quite naked, excepting the piece of 
jackal-skin. They squatted round the fire to dry and warm them- 
selves ; and our kind treatment and good fare induced them to stop 
with us all night. 
In the mean time, our hunting-party had shot an Eland on the 
other side of the river, and, before dusk, had safely brought the flesh 
of it over on a raft. This formed an agreeable change in our food, 
as it began to appear that otherwise we should have nothing to eat 
but the fat meat of Hippopotamus. 
With this last animal, the river hereabout seemed to abound. 
In the evening two of them, in their way up the stream, lifted their 
heads out of water close by our waggons, as if intending to come 
* Cyperus usitatus, B. Cat. Geog. 2082. Culmus triqueter spithameus. Umbella 
contracta, involucris brevior. Spiculae purpurascentes angustae 8-12-florae. Valvulse 
iiervosae. Nervi elevati. Folia plana, culmum subaequantia. Radix repens bulbifera. 
Bulbi squamis magnis ovatis concavis tecti. 
At this station I found growing on the sides of the river and in the water, another 
species of Cyperus, six feet high ; a very handsome plant of this class. 
On the bank grows abundance of Vahlia and a Dracocephahm ? A species of 
Conium was gathered in the same situations ; but owing to the dry state of the ground, 
very few new plants wei"e here added to my herbarium. 
Of insects^ 1 found two new species of Anthia, to one of which I gave the name of 
cffugiensy on account of its very fast running, and of the great difficulty in catching it. 
This property however is common, but in a degree something less, to all the species of 
this genus which I saw. This one is a transgariepine insect. 
The only species of Chironymus in my collection was caught here. 
Lamia viresccns was taken out of the wood of the willow, into which it had eaten 
a deep retreat : this insect is found only on the willow. I met with it afterwards in the 
easternmost part of the Cape colony. 
3 H 
