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“THIS,” as the author informs us, “is an attempt to describe the Orchids growing on the peninsula of the Cape of Good Hope; to give their names and synonyms; to arrange them as far as possible in groups; to adduce the stations where they have been found, and their further distribution so far as known. To this is added a list of collectors; and of books and papers already published upon the subject of South African Orchidology.” Mr. Bolus's name as an authority on Cape Orchids is already well known through his papers in the Journal of the Linnean Society; and the thoroughness with which his work has been done is vouched for by the fact that it has occupied a great part of his leisure time for several years, and embodies the results of a comparison of the Orchids of Thunberg's Herbarium, by Mr. N. E. Brown, A.L.S.; also by the fact that Lindley's Type Herbarium, and the General Herbarium, at Kew, where Mr. Bolus has been staying for several months, have been fully consulted.
The Orchids of the Cape Peninsula.
By Harry Bolus With Thirty-six Plates, partly coloured. Off-print from the Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, 1888, Vol. V., Part 1. (Cape Town, 1888.)
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ROLFE, R. The Orchids of the Cape Peninsula . Nature 39, 222 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039222a0
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