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All these, except the cold wind, can be easily managed in a case, 

 and I should hope that our plant would have the good taste to 

 forgive us that part. The shade, moist atmosphere, and soil seem 

 the chief things to provide. 



" Mr. (afterwards Sir Charles James Fox) Bunbury, 

 F.R.S., of Barton Hall, Suffolk, who accompanied Dr. Harvey 

 to explore Table Mountain, has thus in turn recorded his 

 impressions of this Orchid.* 



" Next to the Ixias, the plants of the Orchid tribe deserve 

 especial mention. By far the finest of them is the Disa grandiflo?-a, 

 the glory of Table Mountain, and certainly one of the most 

 brilliant flowers I ever saw; it grows only in a marshy hollow 

 near the south-eastern extremity of the summit of the mountain, t 

 where it is pretty plentiful among the rushes on the margins of 

 small pools and streamlets, in a black, boggy soil. No plant is 

 more strictly local. In its colours it reminds me much of the 

 well-known Mexican Tigridia, common in our gardens, but its 

 scarlet is far more vivid. Several other interesting species of Disa 

 are found at the top of the same mountain, and other in the flats, 

 together with some large and showy kinds of Satyrium. 



" Mr. H. Bolus gives 'Cold Bokkeveld' and 'Cederbergen' 

 as localities for this plant in addition to Table Mountain. 

 Both ranges are part of the same chain, the Cederberg range 

 being about one hundred and thirty miles N. of Capetown, to 

 W. of the town of Clanwilliam, and the Koude Bokkeveld a 

 range trending off to the S.E. of Cederberg, due S. of the 

 town of Tulbagh, and about eighty miles E.N.E. of Cape- 

 town. The Disa is getting so rare on Table Mountain, 

 owing to constant onslaughts, that I lately heard that the 

 Cape Government have wisely determined to protect it, as 

 the Edelweiss is protected in Switzerland, and penalties are 

 to be inflicted on the depredators. No quarter of the world 

 produces more endemic rarities and peculiar species than 

 the immediate neighbourhood of Capetown ; and it would 



* Hooker, Lond. : Journ. Bot. Vol. I. 1842. 

 t At 3,582 feet elevation (Balfour). 



