
          Dear Doctor


 I wish you had spoken to me
 about Symplocarpus when you
 were writing about it. I studied 
 the seed & fructification 2 years
 ago, & the ovule, sue [sub] judice, is 
 orthotropous. Indeed your own
 remark in spec. descr. [species description] that the
 "plumule is near the base," also
 points to the same conclusion.


 What do you say to 
 my having learned to-day, that
 the seed of Peltandra is not
 anatropous either, and that 
 its embryo, also, is globular, with
 no albumen!
        