> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 266](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120397) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/938-1) LSID 938-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4091070) QID Q4091070 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bolus, Harry (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### 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.