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be wished that these three plants should be sought out by some 
resident botanist who has the leisure and means of looking after 
them. Satyrium pedicellatum exists in the Linnean Herbarium, 
but I have never even seen the others." To this it may be added 
that it is not mentioned in Sonder’s, Reichenbach’s, Krauss’s, 
nor Harvey’s writings on Cape plants; nor were there up to this 
date any specimens in the rich Cape collections at Kew *. 
On Dee. 18, 1882, my friend Mr. A. A. Bodkin, M.A., 
brought me a plant which he had gathered in a favourite botani- 
zing place of ours, in moist spongy ground, amongst hestiaces 
&c. in a shallow valley on the Muizenberg Mountain (Cape 
Peninsula) at about 1400 feet elevation above the sea, and about 
fourteen miles from Cape Town. Upon examination, and after 
careful dissection and drawing, I came to the conclusion that 
it was the Cymbidium tabulare of Swartz, with the description of 
which in Thunberg's * Flor. Cap.’ it agreed admirably in every 
particular. On Dec. 24 we went together to search for more, 
and, to our delight, found six or eight specimens in the same 
place. Two days later we found another specimen on the lower 
part of Table Mountain, in a valley above Klassenbosch, at 
about 2300 feet. 
The plant has since been compared with Thunberg’s type- 
specimen by Mr. N. E. Brown, of the Royal Herbarium, Kew, 
and its identity established beyond a doubt. 
Respecting Harvey’s removal of C. tabulare to Eulophia, quoted 
with approval by Bentham (Gen. Plant. iii. p. 537), it may be 
remarked that neither author appears to have seen the plant. 
Further, that in all generic characters it is identical with C. San- 
dersonit, Harv., which is admitted by Bentham as a genuine 
species. 
BARTHOLINA. 
Bartnorina ETHELE, Bolus, n. sp.; caule erecto, gracili, 4-1- 
pedali ; folio unico orbiculato-cordato ; scapo 1- vel raro 2- (loro; 
* [There are two specimens in the Kew Herbarium collected * on the summit 
of the Craggy Peak, near Zwellendam, 15th Jan. 1815,” Burchell 7358! which 
have been seen by Lindley and by Reichenbach fil. In Lindley's herbarium 
is a specimen collected by Harvey, labelled ‘‘ Cymbidium tabulare, summit 
of Table Mountain, very rare, Jan. 1841 ;" and another with a coloured draw- 
ing communicated by Dr. Pappe, collected by Zeyher on mountains between 
Hottentot-Holland's Kloof and Palmeit River. On the sheet on which these 
are mounted is written in pencil the words “is really a Cymbid. ;” and I believe 
the handwriting to be that of Prof. Reichenbach.—N. E. Browy. ] 
