MASSON’S DRAWINGS OF SOUTH AFRICAN PLANTS. 145 
various journeys through the deserts I have collected about forty, and 
these I humbly present to the lovers of Botany. The figures were 
in their native climate, and though they have little to bined 
which he adds to none of the other eae most of which 
were founded on plants grown in his garden at the Cape—: and 
S. Gordoni (tab. 40), which i is not endorsed by Banks, but bears on 
its front the name ‘« Webber” in Dryander’s hand: another figure, 
apparently of some undescribed Apocynaceous plant, bears a note 
by Dryander—<‘‘ Webber, copied from a drawing of Captain 
Gordon’s at the Cape of Good Hope.’’* Captain (or, as he is Fait 
styled, Colonel) Gordon is referred to by Masson in his ‘preface as 
having ‘‘discovered some very remarkable species Of the 
: Stapelia, to which his name was assigned, Masson says, ‘« Hane 
unicam speciem Stapelie nec vidi nec examinavi; exemplar, ex quo 
delineatio concinnata est, acceptum refero favori Dni. n. 
The published figure differs in colouring from the drawing, the 
— containing no t dteeiees of the purple hue senzued to the 
in the former.+ 
The esas : Orchids, from which the figures enquired for by 
Mr. N. E. Brown (Gard. Chron., Feb. 9th, 1884, p. 184) were taken, 
are all in the collection. Plate vi. in ‘ Journ. Science and Arts,’ iv. 
le) contains figures of Disa grandiflora, D. spathulata and Bartho- 
inia Burmanniana, and is interesting as an early OE of litho- 
ulti 
@ expense or the labour of engraving, there can be little doubt 
but that it will in a short time be much more generally adopted in 
this country... .. Mr. Moser, who has just set up two presses 
for some time employed at several of the most 
Cpgebwes lithographic establishments on the Continent.” In 
the same Journal are descriptions and figures, ‘‘ derived 
m the same source as those of the others ” of Disa porrecta, 
Disperis capensis, and D. secunda; in vol. vi., of Disa graminifolia 
(Herschel celestis Ldl.), Disperis villosa, . cucullata, Cor, yorum 
bicolor, and Pterygodiwm catholicum; in vol. vili., of Satyrium 
bracteatum, Pterygodium alatum, and Coryctum orobanchoides ; and in 
§ copy is ae shoe a plate (lettered ‘ Pentandra Monogynia’) facin 
p. ia. ae Paterson’s ‘ Narr of four Journeys into the country of th “Hae 
— (1789), and the care was ged doubt pre epared from Gordon's origisal draw- 
8. Set travelled into the interior in 1774, and ont with Paterson) in 
Wirt Our drawing of S. Gordoni is probably also a copy. 
Ti should Lives thought it impossible that Bot. a t. 6228, could have been 
Shy appa to represent Masson’s plant; but Mr. N. E. Brown assures me that 
igs or Borany.—Vou. 22. ([May, 1884.] L 
