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LETTERS OP WILLIAM GRIFFITH. 



thing, judging from his drawing, a sort of cross between Michelia 

 and Capparis . 



Would you like to have a set of garden plants, with the garden 

 names: made with the view of ascertaining the real names, and 

 thence making an accurate catalogue ; if so, as I have had five 

 sets made up, you shall be most welcome to one. 



Did you ever come across Aldrovanda, that you make out 

 Roxburgh's plant to be the European one ?. I never have been able 

 to get it yet, tho' I pay pretty handsomely for such things. 



I have just got yours with the Podosteraon, which is evidently quite 

 new, and very curious from having the capsule ecostate, or nearly so. 

 Now this character, though so apparently trifling, is universal, with 

 one exception. Thanks for the hint about plants, I hope to give you a 

 quantify of most interesting things, for I believe Malacca unrivalled 

 in producing these. The Tiliacea is not I think a Berrya, or at any 

 rate it is a subgenus, the fruit has many longitudinal wings, and the 

 habit is different. I will send you specimens of Grewia floribunda 

 along with the garden set I mentioned, without waiting your answer; 

 as what you don't want you can throw away. 



I enclose the 1st pi\rt of the Palms, as I am engaged on Arenginae 

 now, please to send me a leaf etc. of the second one you spoke of. I do 

 not mean the Calamus, although I want specimens of this too. I think 

 the sections of Calamus are good working ones, and the best my ma- 

 terials would admit of. But the seeds etc. want particular examina- 

 tion. If you find the characters not practical, please to let me know, 

 being artificial in almost all instances, they ought to be diagnostic at 

 least. At the end of the paper I shall give a synopsis, with short es- 

 sential characters, and then rest on my oars, until I can study more 

 forms. 



Nothing would give me greater pleasure than being with you, 

 but I have still the Affghan report to do. 



Who would have thought of so many Podostemeae turning up in 

 India ? 



Bot Garden, June 20, 1844. 



Your plants have arrived ; the Calamus was all the worse for its 

 contiguity with the Orchideae etc. which all, except the Cymbidium ? 



