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WILLIAM WESLEY & SON, 
Scientific Booksellers and Publishers, 
28, Essex Street, Strand, LONDON. 
ICONES QRCHIDEARUM 
AUSTRO-AFRICANARUM EXTRA-TROPICARUM, 
OR, 
FIGURES, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF EXTRA-TROPICAL 
SOUTH-AFRICAN ORCHIDS. 
OW Sed dee deg: RPE as 
With 50 Plates, mostly Coloured, large 8vo; cloth. 
By HARRY BOLUS, F.L.S. 
(Author of the Orchids ae the Cape Peninsula; a Sketch of the Flora of 
South Africa, &c.) 
Priee 21s. nett. 
In no part of the world are the members of this distinguished omy of plants 
of more vette form, and more singularly attractive interest, than in South Africa 
Few, as yet h e been made at home in the conservatories of Euro Be both because 
they have ee little known, and —— the cultivation of the many terrestrial 
species which abound in that region makes a greater demand upon the skill of the 
cultivator than do the epiphytal pees: But when once these difficulties are over- 
come, it seems probable that the showy Disa graminifolia, with its lovely pure blue 
flowers, D. ferruginea, D. porecta (all here figured), besides the pale blue D. /ongz- 
cornu, the brilliant cutee Satyrium corifolium, and the crimson S. princeps, will be- 
come as deservedly popular as chat unrivalled Queen of terrestrial orchids, the Disa 
grandiflora. Nearly all the species here figured have been drawn on the spot from 
clature synonymy. N 
Land of the 51 speties here figured, no figures a ever previously appeared, 
second part is in course of eee pccoueniak 
From THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, Sept. 30, 1893. 
FOLLOWING his Orchids bk dbed the ge Peninsula, which proved such a boon to the botanist and 
‘student of the flora of Sow and especially to the calwatee of Cape terrestrial Orchids, 
which now rare favour in eerdend, os fx. Harry Bolus, F.L.S., in his Figures, with Descriptions 
Extra-Tr South A, rig Orchids, gives to the world a valuable ears the outcome of years of 
study and mich, and one which has my been made a labour of lo 
The plan of the OnE “ol which this is the first issue, is that each of she species should be thor- 
(For Orchid Literature, see page 5). 
