846 ICONES ORCHIDEARUM AUSTRO-AFRICANUM. 
Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanum extra-tropicarum ; or, figures, 
with descriptions, of eatra-tropical South African Orchids. By 
Harry Bows, F.L.S Vol.i. Parti. London: W. Wesley 
& Son. Price £1 1s. 0d. 
greater boon on botanists throughout the world, as well as on 
those field-botanists, students, and lovers of nature in South 
ica to whom he trusts his book will be of service. Scattered 
had, but Mr. Bolus must have ready to hand, or could at any rate 
procure with comparative ease, the materials for this part of a 
much-needed “Flora.” There is a tradition which the younger 
Flora Capensis, of which, so the story runs, portions have been 
elaborated by various workers; but, alas! like other great works, it 
remains, and seems likely to remain, incomplete. 
The chief value of the present work consists in the fact that 
nearly all the drawings are from living specimens. One envies the 
orders stand more in need of such illustration than Orchids. It is 
always a tedious, often a highly unsatisfactory or almost hopeless, 
task to resurrect flowers so complex in detail from a soppy mess. 
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This must be cheaper than a coloured plat i i - 
Set tents pe plate, and is, we think, other 
everal new species are described; two small Angrecums, a 
Habenaria, two each of Satyrium and Disa; “while that interesting 
little genus Pachites, which unites the characters of the two last, 
aie ; & somewhat remarkable 
coincidence, as Mr, Bolus points out, Burchell having originally 
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extensive tour through South Africa, 
