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LETTERS OF WILLIAM GRIFFITH. 



1 shall despatch the parcel to Biiiny and Co. in a few days, as 

 the Monsoon seems to iuive set in. I am sorry to hear such account 

 of the Cotton. 



I cannot find Burmannias's flora Indica, (if I have it) or I would 

 send you the drawing. The catalogues of the library and garden 

 are all nearly printed, they have cost me much of labour, especially 

 the alphabetical one of the Library. 



Do you know a Convolvulus with thick stalks to the flower, the 

 same incrassating after fall of flower, and looking with the calyx 

 exactly like a fructus inferus ? we have one from Dr. Gibson. 



Bot. Garden, Nov. 13, 1843. 



The superintendent of the Dhoon (Dehrah Dhoon,) having ap- 

 plied here for Cardamom plants, can you oblige me by procuring 

 for us some bulbs, or learnedly rhizomataj and seeds, sending them 

 here by post ? These will also do for our economical garden. If you 

 are within reach of the black or long pepper, they would be ac- 

 ceptable, cuttings in moss (have you any moss ?) would reach us, 

 safely. 



Our cardamom plant is Amomum dealbatum, it is not yet in the 

 garden. 



Per Hindoostan two cases of fine Dorianne seedling go to Ceylon, 

 where I hope they will at length become well difi*used. 



Have you any Munjeet (Rubia Mungistha), if so, you can recom- 

 mend extension of its cultivation. I will tell you why, a person was 

 here from Java, who was very anxious to introduce it there, its value 

 is known, and Indian munjeet ought not to be exposed to the rivalry 

 its Indigo has been exposed to. Your dried plants have gone to my 

 agents, you will hear of them through Binny and Co. 



Among the grasses, you gave me. I find one from salt, the marshes 

 of Negapatam, which is Festuca natans of Hamilton, a Sunderbund 

 plant : it is a new genus. 



November 4, 1843. 

 Imprimis, I have put your name down for a supply of Sissoo 

 seeds, which will not be ripe before January. The tree is getting 



