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be an occasion for lasting regret if this, the most beautiful, 

 perhaps, in a Flora where all is beautiful, should at any- 

 time become extinct. I do not know to what extent 

 it is found on the Cederberg or Koude Bokkeveld 

 ranges, but I take it to be very local there also. The 

 drawing I am exhibiting to-night was taken by my sister 

 from a living specimen grown by Capt. Osborne, at Gosport, 

 Hants, from specimens obtained at Table Mountain, and 

 the dried specimen was kindly sent to me, with many 

 other Cape species, by my friend, Prof. P. Macowan, curator 

 of the Botanic Gardens, Cape Town, who is now distributing 

 yearly a ' Herbarium Normale Capense.' With care and 

 protection in the winter, there is no reason why the Disci 

 should not thrive in our gardens. For other descriptions, 

 notes, and delineations of this fine plant, c.f. Thunberg 

 'Flora Capensis,' Botanical Register (1825), t. 926. Lindley, 

 Sert: Orchid. (1838), t. 49. BoL Mag., t. 4073." 



Besides the Disa, specimens of most of the other S. 

 African species of Orchidea: were exhibited. 



