UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS 
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 
ANN AF?BOR. MICHIGAN, U. S. A. 
UNIVERSITY HERBARIUM 
IS J\me 1957 
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Dr. Garrall E. Wood, Jrj. 
Gray Herbariua 
22 Divinity Avenue 
CaBJbridge, Mass. 
Dear Carroll, 
It will probably be quite a surprise to you to receive a 
letter from me on tke above letterhead. I am on six months leave of absence 
from Berkel^ and am supposed to organize the work on the accumulated Bart- 
lett collections. fhen in about IS months I am supposed to return and clear 
up the remaining headaches. 
As you know, Dr. Bartlett sent the Hahmat Sumatran collections 
to Dr. Merrill for identification, first to New York Botanical Garden and 
then to Arnold. Except for Rahmat nos. 5701-6337 and 10,056-11,425 (^faich, 
so far as I have been able to find out, have never been sent out for determin- 
ation), the second set went to Merrill. Just which numbers are at New York 
and which at Gray is a bit difficult to ascertain, but the ones about which 
I have some specific questions are, I am quite sure, at Gray. They are in 
the Rahmat number series 64oi-Sl45 (1934) and ten sets were sent out to 
various institutions before identifications were added to the labels. As soon 
as a few snags are cleared up, I will send out a list of identifications on 
these numbers. Could you please check the following points for me? 
Hedyotis sumatrana Merr. New Sumatran Plants III. Papers Mich. Acad. 
Sei. 23:197. 1937. type specimen is cited as Rahiaat 7728 . Please check 
the type to see if it isn't 7728 . (Rahmat 7728 is Aescbynanthug. 
aneciesus and Bartlett 7728 T^"entOTed in his notebook at Tetrastiama ?1 Sine 
both Hedyotis and Tetra^gnaa are in the Rubiaceae, I am quite sure that I've 
hit upon the correct answer, but I'd like it verified. 
Evodia megisto j jfchylla Merr. (Rutaceae), op. cit. p. 182, line J. Here, 
too, I think that the number cited as Rahmat 7603 should be Bartlett 7603 . 
This Bartlett specimen is probably at New York, but I thought that you mi^t 
like to make the correction in your copy of the paper. But if you could 
check it, I would appreciate it. We^^ven't yet organized the Bartlett coll- 
ections, just those of Rahmat. Ir'u D / 
Since your institution was se closely associated with this 
one in the handling of these Sumatran collections. I'll appreciate having 
at this time, any questions or suggestions. 
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Are you going to the meetings at Stanford? 
