TO DR. R. WIGHT. 



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Marlius. Is it Stemless 9 and where does it grow ? any other infor- 

 mation will be thankfully received. 



I have sent you, or rather am putting up for you, as extensive a set 

 of Malacca plants as possible ; so that you will probably get more 

 than 1,000 from that quarter. You will do an invaluable service to 

 Gardener by giving him named plants. I am putting him out a set of 

 Malacca plants also, but without names. I know none beyond those 

 of genera. And I have not time or assistance for ticketing if 1 did. 



1, Lower Circular Eoad, Sept. 29, 1844. 



Can you give me any information regarding the Phoenix lately 

 received ?*to what do the small male specimens of inflorescence be- 

 long ?; scarcely to those in fruit, as the female spadix does not exceed 

 the spathes, whereas in the fruit specimens, the peduncle is very- 

 long indeed. 



What is the size and habit ? is it dwarf, or stemless^ or arboreous. ? 

 Is the trunk rough or smooth ? What are the uses of the plant etc ? 



Is it not Roxburgh's P. farinifera ? arc you acquainted with that 

 species ? 



What is the native name ? is it gregarious or solitary ? a native of 

 woods or open places ? in the mean time I can only allude to it under 

 your name, P. pedunculata, it has the longest peduncles I know. 



On October the first, I recommence work, I was married on the 

 21st., but as honey moons must cease sooner or later, I have no time 

 to protract mine, nor would it be sensible to do so. 



Calcutta, Nov. 24, 1844. 



Your letter has just reached me in time to insure your getting 

 the palms back in one of the two cases, now ready for you. Thanks 

 for Kunth, but he will arrive too late, as I have now in press the Are- 

 cinae, on which I should like to have seen him. Lately I received 

 from you leaves of the Caryota, which is a fourth species like in 

 leaf to A. sobolifera, but larger. Is it to this that the seeds belonged, 

 which you first sent with the Arenga ? Now that Gardener is with 

 you, tell him I have received his second letter ; and have in the 

 mean time packed up about 8, to 900 Dicotyledons for him, from Mai- 



