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PLAINS OF GRASS. 
14, 15 Feb. 
We reached Wittexmter before sunset, and unyoked there for the 
night ; but at this time it was without inhabitants. Our oxen were 
made fast to the Ohve trees, an emblem of peace which we found 
here, but not at the place we had come from ; and after a couple of 
hours occupied in cooking and taking our supper, we lay ourselves 
down early to rest. 
\5th. The next morning we went on to Aakaap, where we halted 
during the hottest part of the day, to allow the oxen time to 
graze, as the plains here abounded in the most beautiful grass I had 
hitherto seen during the whole journey. About midway we found 
a kraal of Koras, not very numerous, yet having with them large 
herds of cattle ; on which account they had pitched their huts in 
the midst of these delightful, but short-lived pastures.* 
At a little after four in the afternoon, we left Aakaap ; and 
soon came to a large and very long valley,^ or lake, in a part of the 
road where, in September, no traces of any thing of the kind were 
to be seen. It was frequented by wild ducks ; at a flock of which 
Commelina Cyperns 
Hermannia Eriospermum 
Barleria T'ournefortia, SfC. 
* Between Wittewater and Aakaap, the folloM'ing were the genera found on this day : 
Kyllingia Panicum 
Bryonia Aristida 
Commelina Convolvulus 
Poa Etiospermum 
Anthericum Cleome 
Mesembryanthemum Beseda dipetala, [var : ramosa.) 
Campanula ? denticidata, B. Catal. Geogr. 2000. Planta pahnaris erecta. Caules 
plures paniculati. Folia linearia denticulata, denticulis oppositis. Flores albi oppo- 
sitifolii. Calyx 5-fidus, divisionibus linearibus denticulatis. Corolla sub-campanulata, 
laciniis oblongis magnis. Stigma trifidum. Capsula trilocularis subrotunda, intra 
calycem dehiscens, apice trivalvi. Semina plura nitida subrotunda spadicea. 
This is, for the present, placed in the genus Campanula^ but can scarcely with pro- 
priety stand in the same with C. Medium. Although differing in other respects, it 
agrees in capsule with the unpublished genus Aikinia (C. hederacea L.) of my friend 
R. A. Salisbury, Esq. ; whose superior talents as a botanist, and whose judgment as an acute 
observer of the natural affinities of plants, have long been well known to the scientific 
world. 
f For an explanation of this word, see the note at page 519. 
