Minutes of Proceedings XCV 
When on the mountain, I asked the ranger to watch the Disas, in 
order to find out which insect or bird visited them. He informed me 
since that on several occasions he had seen this butterfly (Meneris) 
flying from flower to flower, and in one instance he noticed a pollinium 
hanging on to the insect’s leg. Taking all this evidence together, I 
think that there can be no more doubt concerning the fertilization of 
the Disa. 
In connéction with this question, I beg to exhibit another specimen 
of Meneris Tulbaghia, which has two pollinia of Disa ferruginea attached 
to its proboscis. This occurrence is not without interest, as Mr. Bolus 
states in his book, referred to above, that neither Mr. Péringuey nor 
himself had seen an insect with a pollinium of an orchid. 
Mr. Botus added that since the publication of his book he had 
captured a dipterous insect with a pollinium on its body. 
ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 
Wednesday, March 27, 1895. 
Mr. R. Marwotu, Ph.D., M.A., President, in the Chair. 
Professor G. 8. CORSTORPHINE was duly elected an ordinary member 
of the Society. 
The undermentioned presents were announced, and the thanks of the 
Society voted to the donors : 
Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 293. 
Bulletin de Académie Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1894, 
No. 3. 
Bulletin de Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 
Tome IT., No. 1. 
Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala, 
Vol. 
Report of British Association, 1894. 
Jahrbiicher der K. K. Central Anstalt fur Meteorologie und Erd- 
magnetismus. 
Mr. Bouus exhibited a specimen and drawing of a new and very 
distinct species of Disa received from Miss C. B. Newdigate of the 
Knysna; also a specimen of a small campanulaceous plant believed to 
be identical with Roella decurrens of L’Heritier. This plant is little 
known, and the place of its origin has never been stated. It does not 
appear to have been met with during the present century. It was, then, 
a fact of the greatest interest that it should have been gathered about 
a week ago on Table Mountain by Mr. H. G. Flanagan, an enthusiastic 
