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### Author
Bolus, Harry (1834-1911), British born South African banker and botanist.
**Abbreviated name**: *H. Bolus* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bolus*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BOL|BOL]]. Other coll. e.g. [[Collection BUL|BUL]], [[Collection GRA|GRA]], [[Collection NH|NH]], [[Collection NU|NU]], [[Collection PRE|PRE]], [[Collection SAM|SAM]], [[Collection STE|STE]] and outside S. Africa.
*Exsiccatae*: *Herbarium austro-africanum*, with Mac Owan, q v.
*Ref*.: IH 2: 84.
- Tölken, Index herb. austro-afr. 58. 1971.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 5(1): 394; Barnhart 1: 214; BB p. 37; BL 1: 28, 54; BM 1: 192-193, 6: 106; Bossert p. 44; CSP 9: 288, 12: 174, 13: 665; Kew 1: 291.
- Pearson, S. Afr. J. Science 8: 59-79. 1911 (portr., bibl., itineraries)
- Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1911: 275-277, 319-322.
- Pearson, Rep. S. Afr. Ass. Adv. Sci. 8: 59-79. 1912 (bibl., portr.)
- Stapf, Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1911/12: 42-44.
- Harloth, Fl. S. Afr. 1: x. 1913 (portr.)
- Verduyn de Boer, Botanists at the Cape. 1929 (portr.)
- Nelmes and Cuthbertson, Bot. Mag. Dedic. 1827-1927: 270-272. 1932 (portr.)
- White, Stapeliae 1: 105. 1937.
- Hutchinson, A botanist in Southern Africa 645. 1946.
- Lütjeharms, The life and work of Harry Bolus, Cape Town. 1965 (mimeogr.)
- Tyrrell-Glynn and Levyns, Flora africana 7-8. 1968.
- Jessop, S. Afr. biogr. woordenb. 1: 92-95. 1968.
#### Eponymy
*Bolusafra* O. Kuntze (1891); *Bolusanthus* Harms (1906); *Bolusia* Bentham (1873); *Bolusiella* Schlechter (1918); *Neobolusia* Schlechter (1895). *Note*: *Bolusanthemnm* Schwantes (1928) is dedicated to his daughter-in-law Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit (q.v.)
### Publications
##### n.625. Icones orchidearum austro-africanarum extra-troplcarum
**Title**
*Icones orchidearum austro-africanarum extra-troplcarum*; or, figures with descriptions, of extra-troplcal South African Orchids. London (William Wesley) 1893-1913, 3 vols, Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Icon. orchid. austro-afric.*
**Notes**
|vol. |part |*plates* |dates |pages|
|--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |
|1 |1 |1-50 |15 Aug 1893 |\[i\]-vi, \[1, note\], l.p., \[2 p. ind.\]|
| |2 |51-100 |20 Aug 1896 |\[i-iii\], l.p., \[3 P. ind.\], app. \[2\]p., preface and t.p. to vol. 1 \[viii\]p.|
|2 |1 |1-100 |Apr-Jun 1911 |\[i-vi\], l.p. \[3 p. ind.\]; page iv: Apr 1911, Nat. Nov. Nov 1911, BR inscr. 15 Jun 1911.|
|3 |1 |1-100 |1913 |\[i-v\], l.p.; page v: 12 Feb 1913, Nat. Nov. Dec 1913.|
The plates are accompanied by one or two pages letterpress. *Coples*: BR, HH. – 36 plates of vol. 3 were first published by H. Bolus in his "Orchids of the Cape Peninsula, " Trans.
South Afr. Philosoph. Soc. 5(1): 75-200. 1888. The 300 (partly) coloured plates are by H. Bolus and F. Bolus. F. Bolus edited the third volume; preface by H. M. L. Bolus. – Portrait as frontisplece to vol. 2.
*Ref*.: BM 1: 193, 6: 106; Kew 1: 291; NI 197.
- Tyrrell-Glynn and Levyns, Flora africana 7. 1968.