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find it identical ; it is C. reticulata. When I have got my 

 lierbarium all in order I will send you a large lot of things, 

 but when that may be I am yet unable to say. I am at pre- 

 sent grouping the Cunvolvuli, and if in better luck than I 

 was yesterday and to-day, hope to finish them to-morrow — 

 not that I shall name them all, but I have every species dis- 

 posed of in its proper envelope, and sufficiently well arranged 

 to enable me readily to add either additional specimens or 

 species, which is all tiiat I can now do, but even in that I 

 make slower progress than I could wish, as I deem myselt 

 fortunate if I get fifty species so brought together from two 

 separate collections in the course of a day, and sometimes 1 

 cannot get as many done in a whole week. When these two 

 collections are incorporated, 1 have, I cannot tell you how 

 many, more to add from another series brougiit from Mala- 

 bar, Cape Comorin, and about "i uticoreen on the east coast, 

 and last, but certainly not least, a vast quantity from Courlal- 

 lum, where I have been twice myself, and had my collectors for 

 nearly three months. I have now sent two collectors to the 

 Malabar coast, placing them under the observation of a friend 

 who will afford them convenience for drying specimens which 

 they could not otherwise have. I am also carrying on an 

 active correspondence with Colonel Walker of Ceylon, who 

 is soon to send me specimens of about two hundred plants 

 collected on the highest hills of that island, among which are 

 several European genera. I have told him that I am anxious 

 to procure as extensive collections of Ceylon plants as 

 possible, from the most common seed up to the rarest, and 

 he writes me that he is endeavouring to get a man well 

 qualified from having been long under Moon. He or rather 

 Mrs. W. sent me a neat sketch of a new species oi Passiflora, 

 which 1 intend to publish shortly under the name of P. Ceylon- 

 ica* Colonel Walker has also promised me a set of tra- 



* It is P. laurifolia L., understood to be a native of the West Indies 

 on which account no notice was made of it in our Prodromus, althoug 

 Dr Wight had specimens, probably cultivated or naturalized in the Prniii- 

 sula, a circumstance which he seems to have overlooked. — Arn. 



