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t, has done his work admirably ; h case is given, where possible, a sketch of the plant as a 
at while the flower and its caeind are every fully illustrated. In few, but rare, cases the dissections 
o somewhat unduly crowd the plate. The style seas is that of the Refugium 
cumt, parts only of the drawing a tinted, but quite enough to give an idea of the colour of 
ay ns leaf, flower, lip, or column. This must be "chea aper than a shea plate, and is, we think, 
oO se preferable. 
ev slg new species are described ; two small Angrzcums, a Habenaria, two each of Satyrium 
and Disa ; while that interesting little genns Packie, which unites the characters eis the two last, 
hitherto monotypic, receives an addition in P. Bodkini, a solitary specimen of which was found by 
Prof. Bodkin eg: Muizenberg, Cape Peninsula, early in 1890, Further search in aus same and 
su sgn seasons has proved paeen ge a somewhat remarkable coincidence, as Mr. Bolus points 
only on eci i s 
found the pein again twenty-four years after Burchell, but, so far as known, it had va deen dis- 
covered since till quite recently, when Mr. Schlechter, a German botanist = collector who is 
lj a h : 
fh 
transposed, so 3 as 2 kp. is describ bed as Seagr of ‘ e a s,” and wice versd. This is the only 
ity, but Sif 
insignificant lip, is enriched by te Sep eae: fs a new species and its variety, major. Disa itself 
supplies a larger proportion of Icones than any other genus, tabs. 27-39 being devoted to it, while 
ubtribe Disee is very predominant 
enlighten Mr. Bolus on one point. He says of whch a (t 12), ‘i the 
original description was based nee a plant in Sonder’s herbarium o have been found in 
the Saga agen. ge: niga e may infer that it was most rokanly: collected by Zeyher.” It has 
since been found by Mr. Culver, and ees Mr. Bolus has not seen any authenticated specimen, 
he hoe little pt of sie Hatin Mr. Culver’s Pate oe agree ae well with Reichenbach’s 
brief i se and ni ac Parsee is known from h Africa e in the British Museum 
He hg ma Pogonia phen by Zeyher (No. 1 aa canal identical with re t figured in the 
Lcone. . B. REN 
From NATURE, Nov. 76, 1893. 
Re is an epeon work, devoted to the orchids of extra-tropical South Africa, and sy 
e lines of the “‘ fn m Botanicum” of Mr. Wilson Saunders. The first rath copied Bed 
‘ Bodkini 
There are strong grounds, however, for suspecting that Satyrium Guthried is not a true species, but 
a natural hybrid. It was described from a single liv: ia no found growing — S. candidu um, 
Lindl., in burnt-off places on the Cape Flats, Tokai, near Cape Town, by Mr. F. Guthrie. Mr. 
e c m deg 
bout itter. s 
however, that in every character in which 5. uthriet differs from S. dicallosum it approaches .S. 
candidum ; in fact, with the Seees tice of the column, it bears much closer resemblance to the last 
named species, and as e organs generally ar ¢ intermediate in character between those of the = 
species, there seems little doubt that it is a setisl hybrid between them. Many su ch organisms 
now known, and as both the species grow in the district, there is nothing improbable about the 
mat 
There are several points of interest about the work, one or two of ep may be mentioned 
cies inte 
four occasio u i 
another twenty-four years later ; and now, after a lapse of fifty years, M aoe ae has somata red 
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