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TELEPHONE; ARDWICK 2681 
Botanical Department, 
R.E. Holttum, Esq., 
Director of Gardens 
Singapore. 
The University, 
MaNC HESTER. 1 3, 
f F t 8 1941 
Dear Sir, 
Very many thanks for your 
letter 531/40 of 25th. November, 1940, 
enclosing seeds of your local species 
of Striga. The species appears to he 
that known to us as S. lutea, according 
to Index Kewensis, synonymous with 
the species you mention. Un for tuna tety, 
the herbarium specimens you mention 
have not yet arrived here, so that we 
cannot confirm this point. Perhaps 
the herbarium specimens have Seen 
delayed, and if they are received in 
the future we can make sure of the 
exact species; in any case we shall 
find this out when the seed is grown 
in the summer, and shall let you know 
in either event. 
S. lutea is a serious 
economic pest attacking all Gramineae 
and is most troublesome in the ceisal 
producing areas of South and Central 
Africa, India and Burma. We are 
conducting experiments with the ultimate 
object of discovering control measures, 
and for this we need continuous supplies 
of seed. As we suspect there are 
llf/lo 
