delighted chiefly in moift places near the fea-fhore, and was in flower the whole winter. Proteas, ericas, cornufes, gnapbaliums, gnidias, echias, phyllicas, brunias, and peri- plocas, two varieties of the tnyrica cerifera, together with cliff'ortias, thejias, polygalas, hermannias and afters, were ftrewed promifcuouily over the dry places on the declivity of the mountain. Among thefe fome reftios feemed quartered on the bare fand, together with divers mefembryanthemums. The byobanche fanguinea, a par aft tic plant, towards fpring, began to throw out its blood-red tufts o f flowers in the naked fand; an ofteofpermum or two, as well of the arboreous as herbaceous kind, were now and then likewife found in the bare fand. ArSlotides, calendulas, and othonnas, throve chiefly in fandy places. On the mountain befides proteas, brunias, diofmas, ericas, and the Jlilbe, we found indigoforas, erinufet, felagos, manulias, cbironias o f different kinds, together with many gynan- drous plants. We likewife found greens and kitchen- garden plants in great plenty at this inaufpicious time of the year. Towards fpring, divers forts o f ixias, gladiolufes, moreas, oxalifes, mefembryanthemums, antirrhinums, and even various beautiful fmall irifes, feveral inches high, with the corolla partly white and partly blue, began to puih out of the ground. Of the partly known and partly quite new plants which we met with at this fpot, fome were rather uncommon, others again was not to be found again in the other places I vifited in Africa. Every diftridt has always fomething peculiar to itfe lf: no wonder then, i f Dr. T h u n b e r g and I ihould have palled over various fpecimens o f the vegetable table tribe unnoticed, and the common faying, Semper '772. aliquid novi ex Africa, ihould ftill hold good for many years to come. Botanifts, therefore, muft not expedt in this place a more accurate catalogue o f plants, which would be too tedious a bufinefs; but content themfelves with acquiring, en paffant, as it were, and at a diftance, by means ' o f the preceding lift, fome idea o f the country, juft as it is, covered with the herbs and trees molt commonly found in it on different fpots, and at different times o f the year. S E C T . ;
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