aio. THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
for example. From its column it should evidently be placed next tof 
bicallosum, yet in most other respects it is more like S. candidum, especially 
in its long tapering spurs. The example in question is therefore especially 
interesting, and it is probable that others will be found. a a 
Satyrium Guthriei, Bolus Zc. Orch. Aust.-Afr. extra-trop., \., t. 21. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. | 
Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum extra-tropicarum ; or, Figures, wih 
descriptions, of extra-tropical South African Orchids. By Harty Bolus, ; 
F.L.S. Vol. 1. Part 1, tt. 1-50. London: William Wesley and Son, 
28, Essex Street, Strand. “ 
This is a work for which we have nothing but praise. Its object ® 
set forth by the author, is to give an accurate figure with dissections, takes 
from living specimens wherever possible, of the Orchids of South Africa, 
which, as is well known, are both numerous and interesting. The first pat 
now before us, contains fifty plates, with four exceptions partly colourél 
from drawings by the author, which will prove invaluable as aids to the 
identification of these plants. Mr. Bolus has qualified himself for the woth 
by many years of careful study, and his papers in the Fournal of the Line” 
Society, with his later Orchids of the Cape Peninsula, are sufficient guarante . 
of the quality and reliability of the work. The present volume may eI 
compared with the Refugium Botanicum, as regards its arrangement, W a 
in the execution of the plates it shows a decided improvement of the 
earlier work of the same author. The fifty-one species described peed 
to sixteen genera, and include the following nine novelties > ce 
caffrum, A: Maude, Habenaria Galpini, Satyrium Guthriei (see p- 269) | 
our present issue), S. ocellatum, Pachites Bodkini, Disa sabulosa, ~ 
conferta, and Brownleea Galpini. Some time ago the blue Disas rece” © 
Some attention in this country, and here we find a figure of the beat 
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D. graminifolia, Ker, not the plant formerly cultivated under this we j 
which belongs to another species. We extract the following :— | 
f riod, 
ey ee 
It is one of the commonest species within our limits, has a rather long flowerins 
oa attracts universal observation by its beauty and brilliancy. .. - In spite of 
ie = does not yet appear to have been successfully cultivated in Englane. 
“ast that this difficulty will eventually be conquered, and if so the spe pee well 
= A deservedly popular amongst Orchid cultivators. Horticulturists will re 
hy r that during its flowering period in its native home the plant recent, : 
pel "3 te roots, being dependent for moisture on what is stored up in 1S agi: 
Pon the occasional mists which envelop the mountain sides. 
