ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, 
All communications should be addressed to 
The Director, 
quoting the following number:— 
2/SINGr/l# 
Dear Holtturn, 
KEW, SURREY, 
• 19th October, 1940. 
*; . pf G. No, 33£^K«» 
Many thanks for your letters of July 4th and 
August 8th with regard to Nauen’s "Loxocarpus" from Kota 
Tinggi. I was waiting to haye your second letter before 
sending you a reply* as Burtt* who is working on the species* 
tells me he had already compared our plant with the 
description of L, Holttumii and did not think it could be _ 
that species as the fruit of our specimen is cylindric. He 
thinks the plant is not one of those species which Ridley- 
described* though unfortunately we have no material oi them 
at Kew. We should like to describe it as a new species* but 
the obstacle is the condition of the genera, which appears 
to need a good deal of revision. I hope you may be able to 
find some more specimens when you revisit the locality, and 
should you be thinking of revising the genera of Gesneraceae, 
please let me know. Otherwise, it may be best for us to 
draw up a description of this plant as a new species of 
Didy mocarpus . It would be very helpful if you could let us 
have your views as to whether Didvmocarnus B Boeopsis should 
be made into a distinct genus or not. 
I have been reading through your annual report 
on Gardens for the year 1939 and notice on page 7, among 
Hew Herbaceous Plants* that you have been raising Lobelia 
dresdenensis. As we do not know this plant here* I shall be 
very glad if you could send us a little seed* as from your 
account it sounds an interesting plant and I should like to 
be able to grow it. 
With kind regards, 
\ 
Yours sincerely, 
R. E. Ho It turn* Esq.. , 
Director of Gardens* 
Singapore, 
Straits Settlements. 
