1811. 
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which I found afterwards much more numerous in the country of 
the Bachapins. My Httle friend, Mantis lucubrans *, always paid me 
an evening visit, whenever the weather was fine. 
At this place thirty-three species of plants were added to my 
catalogue f, among which was a small asclepiadeous plant called 
" by our Hottentots, who value it on account of the root, 
which is of the size of a round flat turnip ; and being full of a 
watery juice, it is often used by the natives to relieve their thirst, when 
traversing these arid regions. Southern Africa produces many plants 
of this order, with a large bulbous eatable root, all of which are 
well known to the native inhabitants, who, not always distinguish- 
ing their differences, apply the same name to various species. A sort 
Anthia Jimhriata. This I adopt for the Carakis Jimbriatus of Th. and Olivier, on 
the authority of Dr. Leach, whose character as an entomologist is too well 
known to stand in need of my praise. 
Anthia . Atra. Thorax postice productus bilobus; ad latera dilatatus, areis 
humeralibus ovatis fulvis hirsutis. Elytrorum margines albae hirsutae. Maxillae 
longitudine capitis. Longitudo, duo fere poUices. Affinjs Carabo thoracico, 
Th : An eadem ? 
* Mantis lucubranSi B. Tota cinereo-fusca. Alae venis nigris reticulatse. Corpus 
subtus incarnatum. Longitudo, 17 lineae. 
f Polygala ephedroides, B. Catal. Geogr. Celastrus, a remarkable species, with a 
1793. Fruticulus, 2 - pedalis et profusion of slender horizontal thorns, 
ultra, fere aphyllus. Rami teretes 
erecti. Folia minima, linearia. Flores 
twice or thrice as long as the leaves. 
in apicibus ramulorum spicati nutan- 
tes majusculi. 
Rhus pyroides. B. 
Rhus tridactyle. B. 
Salvia ethiopis 
Clematis brachiata 
Polygala rigcns. B. Catal. Geogr. 
1821. Fruticulus spithameus ra- 
mosus rigidus pubescens. Folia li- 
nearia obtusa canaliculata, margini- 
bus apiceque reflexis. Flores minuti 
sparsi. 
Cynanchum viminale ? 
Euclea n. s. 
Samolus Vakrandi. Th. 
3 0 
Mentha 
Cissampelos 
Scabiosa 
Tanacetum ? 
Gomphocarpus 
Andropogon 
Festuca 
Saccharum 
Juncus 3 sp. 
Scirpus P 2 sp. 
Cyperus 
Statice 
Convolmlus 
Phlomis 
Sanseviera, &c. 
