
          Botanical Mag. (Hooker) Tab. 2902.) I find not only that E. Splendens
is from Madagascar but that every part of the stem of the
plant is clotted exceedingly thickly with opines or thorny - & that
it is splendid from the brilliant [?] of the flowers themselves
instead of, as in the present instance (E. poinsttia) in its superb
scarlet bracts which often in good specimens measure a [?]
acrop. I find that I have no description of such a sp as E.
poinsettia or any which appears to me to the synonymon to it.
I must ask you therefor to examine the specimen and let me
know the result.
Mr  [?] collection of plants is looking very  [?] particularly
his palms of which I think he has the richest collection in America
both he & I had intended to send you a few plants but were
caught by the early cold weather. You may expect to be 
remembered in the spring.
I have not yet had the pleasure of seeing Arnott & Wights Indian
Flora which you mention. I should be exceedingly obliged to you
if you have any laty phamphlets or periodicals (such as the companion to
the Bot. Mag) relating to Botany or Hort. [Horticulture]: that you could send me
to [?] over by mail (I paying the postage each way) if
you would trouble yourself to do so. The water navigation
is so much closed that I can now get nothing in that
manner. In my last letter I gave Dr Gray a check for
2 vols of his [Gram?] etc wich as my brother tells one is not yet
drawn I repeat again. I take shame to myself that it was

        