24 th January, 
3’ 
Dear Dr. Smith, 
Under separate cover, I venture to send you a mounted sheet 
of an Suphorbiacettfia plant. This has quite puzzled me and I was 
anaole to trace it at Kew, Dr. van Slooten at Buitenzorg has also 
failed to recognise it, and suggested that I should send it to 
you. Unfortunately I have only this one sheet on which female 
flowers are very scarce, so I am sending you a short description 
of the flowers and some sketches made under the camera lucida. 
Any help you can give me will be very much appreciated. 
Yours sincerely. 
Dr. J. J. Smith, 
Snaegeester Straatweg 1b, 
Oestgeest,(near Leiden) 
hollarid. 
