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On descending a few hundred feet we came to a valley. There the 
Disa grandifiora, Linn., probably the finest of all terrestrial Orchidee, 
grew in great perfection on the sides of rivulets, places which during 
the wet season are entirely under water. We collected a sufficient num- 
ber of specimens, and continuing our ramble, met with the rica lutea, 
Linn., Z. cornuta, Roxb., F. glutinosa, Berg., Harveya tubata, Hook., 
a species of Drosera, and many other interesting plants. Towards 
dusk our attention was attracted by a number of baboons, which were 
Jumping with great dexterity from roek to rock, and chattering so loudly 
that their voice could be heard at a great distance. We descended 
on the opposite sidé to that we had come, in order to make a semi- 
circuit, and arrived at nine o’clock in Cape Town, tired, but highly 
pleased with our excursion. 
(To be continued.) 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
The Linnean Herbarium. 
[The following general remarks are abridged from “ Anteckningar vid 
de Skandinaviske Växterna in Linnés Herbarium, by C. Hartmann.” 
(Notes on the Scandinavian plants in the Herbarium of Linneus.) 
Transactions of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for 1849 
(published 1851), p. 147.] 
The inconvenience of not possessing hitherto any details of the Lin- — 
nean collections has been generally felt and acknowledged by the 
botanical world. Although a botanical author's views may be far - 
better learnt from his writings than from his herbarium, which is not — 
always, and since Linneus's time but rarely, arranged in conformity 
with the former; yet it cannot be denied, that in all cases of doubt, - 
and in the absence of satisfactory evidence as to the plant which an — 
author had before him, or has reason for considering it in ome light in — 
preference to another, it is his herbarium whieh must come to our aid. 
This is precisely the case in respect to the writings and herbarium of — 
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