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Caracas, February 5, 1926. 
Dr. S. F. Blake, botanist, 
Bureau of Plant Industry, 
Washington D.C 
Dear Dr. Blake: 
The necessity of having the botanical names 
of certain Capparidaceae so as to be able to use their 
common names in the preparation of my book on the useful 
plants of Venezuela made me study that family a little, 
I have prepared keys of the species of Cleome and Capparis 
reported so far from Venezuela and revised with their help 
all the material at hand. I send you inclosed copies of 
the keys, and in the list of names also inclosed you will 
find the species we have here in our herbarium. As I have 
changed some names which had perhaps been sent by you, I 
shall be thankful if you will have a look at the family and 
tell me where I may have erred. I could not place my n° 
9490 (Cleome?) on account of our specimen being not very 
good. If you do not have a sufficiently good specimen to 
do better than I did, let me know. I remember exactly where 
the plant grows and I will go for it in April. 
I am also puzzled with P. 7551 and A 105. To 
all appearances they belong to Gaudichaudi a, but the genus 
has never been reported from Venezuela, ancT then my specimens 
do not correspond to any of the descriptions I have at hand. 
The two long, vermiform glands at the base of the leafblades 
do not seem to belong to the genus. What do you do with these 
things? In the same family, my n° 11484 is not Stigmaphyllon 
fulgens and I cannot decide to which species of Sunchosia Jahn 
n° 1194 does belong. 
I may send you another list of names next week 
Since I wrote you my last note, I received a letter from poor 
Safford dated Jan. 5th. When signing he added the following 
P.S.: PIease pardon this short note. I am not very well to-day. 
Siempre tu amigo W. E. S.! If I am not mistaken, he died on 
the 10th. 
Yours sincere? - 
hp/lcb. 
