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HERBARIUM EN MUSEUM 
VOOR SYSTEMATISCHE BOTANIE 
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■s LANDS PLANTENTUIN BUITENZORG, - March 1 $\ 93 3-5* 
7^- (JAVA) 
Please address correspondence to: 
Het Hoofd van het Herbarium van 
's lands Plantentuin Ml** Me Hinder SOU* 
Byifemofg, Java {Netherlands Indio) 3 0 taniC ^arCteiM, Singapore. 
Dear Henderson, 
I send you back the material sent for iden¬ 
tification. The following remarks are to be made. 
Mussaenda theifera Pierre* The species is new to Nether¬ 
lands India. Gould we have one of the twin specimens? 
Lys imachla sp. I cannot identify this. Gan it be sent 
with the note and drawing to Mr.Handel-Mazetti, Vienna. If 
the drawing is not to be published I should li$e to receive 
it back for our collections. If it is to be published by 
you or Handel-Mazetti there is no need of its return. 
Can we have a duplicate of this interesting plant? 
Trigonos temon . We have allied specimens, but I have not 
succeeded in exact matching your number. 
Of Microtroni s. Quercus and Ficus Othe latter seems to 
be variable) l have given some hints which may be of use 
for claser examination and comparison. The S ymplocos is 
unknown to me, but I have not seen all species mentioned 
in Flore Generale de 1 ’ Indo-Chine• 
After the package has been made I think that the specimen 
of Trigonostemon was intended as a duplicate for our herbariu 
Please senC it with so me other duplicates in the future. ** 
Very good of you to make the Javan holiday as long as is 
possible. We shall be at the steamer on Friday 6th April and 
hope to bring you safely to Bultenzorg, where I expect that 
we spent first some days together. 
Tomorrow I will ask Dammarman, the Director, if he has 
already got a lfcetter from Holtturn asking to get facilities 
officially, mffcemxwh&Bixicto and getting permit f r me to 
accompany you on some trip/s. His wif# is very seriously 
ill since two weeks and is at Batavia, so he $as lost his 
head more or less, but I am sure he will give me freedom to 
do all for arranging the trips. 
From Tandjongpriok,the harbour of Batavia, we can go 
straight to Bultenzorg by train , which is exceedingly cheap 
since March 1 st. 
Sincerely yours 
(Dr.G.G.G.J.van Steenis), 
It is advisable to take warm clothes (woollen) for the 
mountains. At 2^00 m alt. it is very cold when the sun 
not burning hot. 
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