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shall have a preparatory letter from me. He wishes to see 

 his plants published, and as you are the only English Botanist 

 likely to do so for sometime, he has told Graham, whilst 

 sending his last collection, to send you a good set; in my next 

 hovvever, I intend to tell him, that if he wishes you to name 

 or describe his plants, he ought to send you those for your ex- 

 amination in a direct manner. In my last, written immediately 

 before I started on my present tour, I told you that I had taken 

 up the subject of the Garciniece; that paper will be published 

 in a (ew days. I have since written another on the Bal~ 

 saminece, describing about fourteen or fifteen new species, all 

 those of which I send you sketches of the flowers from Courtal- 

 lum, six others from Shevagurry hills, and two from the Pul- 

 neys. I have now seen ample reason for believing my pro- 

 posed genus Koupathea, is only a queer Balsam, which I have 

 denominated Impatiens aitriculata; it may, however, be pub- 

 lished under that of /, alata, if the letter containing the 

 former does not reach the editor in time to make the alter- 

 ation. I have also sent to the same journal a third memoir, 

 but of a totally different description. These may or may not 

 reach you, but I have desired the editor to forward to you 

 through Allen & Co., ten copies of each of my botanical 

 papers, in order that you may distribute them in the manner 

 you think most appropriate. Since I came here, I have had 

 an application from a new Madras Society, (the Madras 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Society,) for communications, 

 with which I have complied. As what I wrote was knocked 

 off in a coiiple of days, amidst a variety of interruptions, you 

 will readily suppose that it partakes largely of the off-hand 

 character. I presume that it will be printed, and you shall 

 have a spare copy if I can get one. While the iron was hot, 

 I wrote a second one for the Calcutta Society, of the same 

 name, but of a different description ; that society has re- 

 cently paid me the compliment of presenting me (although 

 not a member,) with a copy of its transactions, I therefore 

 feel in honour bound, when any thing good comes in the 

 way, to make it the subject of a communication. An appro- 



