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The handsome Disa ferruginea, which has orange-vermillion flowers, 
generally accompanies the preceding, and this species we are told is 
abundant on Table Mountain, and largely sold in bouquets in the streets. 
Brownleea ccerulea’ is noted as a very pretty and distinct species worthy of 
cultivation, to which we may add that it has already flowered in England 
(see p. 282 of our present issue). Disa tripetaloides has proved so easy of 
culture in England that we must call attention to its yellow-flowered variety 
aurata, here figured, of which we read :— 
Flowers deep but bright golden-yellow. I was long familiar with this wide-spread 
species in its usual colour (rosy pink, often with carmine spots); but it is so unusual for 
Cape Orchids to vary from such a colour into yellow that when I first found this I could 
hardly suppose it to be the same species. Yet it is undoubtedly so. 
Satyrium pumilum, Thunb., is a remarkable little species, with flowers 
marked like those of a Stapelia, and, further, the flowers have a heavy 
odour of putrid flesh. Pachites Bodkini is a very remarkable species, 
described from a single specimen, and it is very singular that the allied 
P. appressa, Lindl., is only known from four specimens, one found by 
Burchell in 1815, one by Krauss twenty-four years later, and two others 
found recently by Mr. Schlechter, from which the species is to be figured 
in the next part of this work. Corycium crispum, Sw., is remarkable for 
its crisped leaves. A beetle appears upon Plate 35, Disa elegans, Rchb. f. 
with the following very interesting note :— 
Upon one of the flowers was found a beetle, Peritrichia sp., as my friend M. Peringuey 
informs me, belonging to a group of well-known fertilisers, and which had a pollinium 
attached to its thorax. This being only the second instance of an insect actually carrying 
Orchid pollen which I have seen during many years’ study of Cape Orchids, I have thought 
it desirable to figure it with the plant. 
Many other interesting facts could be pointed out, for which those 
interested in these charming plants must turn to the book itself. 
Martius’ Flora Brasiliensis. Volume XIII., Part 3. Orchidaceea. By Alfred 
Cogniaux. Fasciculus CXIV.; 160 pages, 34 plates. 
The first fascicle of the volume relating to Orchids of the above important 
work has just appeared, and comprises the genera Selenipedium, Habenaria, 
Chlorea, Bipinnula, Pogonia, Pogoniopsis, Epistephium, Vanilla and 
Pelexia ; in all one hundred and sixty pages, and thirty-four plates, containing 
analytical drawings of seventy-three species, with additional sketches of 
habit in the majority of cases. The general character of this great work is 
so well known that it is needless to particularise. With regard to the 
present volume, we may state that the arrangement adapted is that of Prof. 
Pitzer, which, as is well known, is largely based on the characters of the 
