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ROYAL 
BOTANIC GARDENS. 
KEW. SURREY. 
11th September, 1941. 
2/SING/l. 
Dear Holtturn. 
You will remember the Di dymocarpus you sent 
me, about which various letters have passed between us. 
Your last letter was dated December 19th, 1940, to which 
I replied on February 22nd, 1941. You will be interested 
to hear that our plants have again flowered this year, 
but as Burtt has, unfortunately, left to do war work, 
I cannot give you any very definite information about it. 
I have had a description drawn up of the plant, but as 
our material of Gesneraceae has been evacuated to a 
safer part of England, I am afraid I must leave the 
matter of a name until the end of the war. 
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It is quite a nice plant, though it does not 
grow here as freely as I should like to see it. The 
flower is whitish to palish blue-lilac on the upper side 
and whitish on the other side, bluish-mauve on the inside 
of the upper portion and white below. We find it is 
sweet scented in the early morning. The leaves are 
shining and bright green above and very pale green 
beneath with conspicuous darker veins. 
Obviously there is a good deal to be done 
in revising the Gesneraceae , but until the times become 
normal I am afraid we cannot do anything further. 
From all that we have been able to discover, 
it appears to be a new species of Didymocarpus in Ridley ! s 
sense, and possibly belongs to the section Bo eopsis , 
but we can find no species in our collections at all' 
closely allied to it. Our plant, as I think you will 
remember, was ,g**own here from seed, which Nauen sent 
in 1938, and toe seed was collected at Kota Tinggi, 
Jehore. 
v 
E. E. Holt turn. Esq. , 
Botanic Gardens, / ->a' 
Singapore, 
Straits Settlements^ 
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Yours sincerely* 
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