The noted English naturalist, William John Burchell, remarked in 1811 that the deep sand of the Flats made travel by cart or wagon extremely difficult.
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Burchell came across the species a number of times between 1811 and 1814, but it seems to have reached Europe only as late as 1893 by a Mr. Max Leichtlin from Baden-Baden, and oddly in the same year by a Mr. Gumbleton, who had received seeds from a Mr. Adlam in Natal.