Cl ova, Th e rn oun t, 
Heatherhead, Surrey 
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-crd. April, 1932 
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My dear Holt turn, 
- *1 have “been working at Raplianus today; and I * 
find Kew very poor in far eastern material.. There is 
not a single /specimen from Malaya, and from the whole - 
of Malaysia, only three sheets from °ava # cwo duplicating 
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each other. * 
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Schulz separates Raphanus caudatuS as rre;^c:»aM»^haf‘ 
is the rat-tailed capsuled species which the Malays 
grow as a vegetable,-' from the true radish or R. 
satmvus. There is not a single -specimen in the Kew 
fc . • . •* <£'• j p v * ( .>«f 
Herbarium of it* roots* It is a fleshy root; but surhiy 
not* nearly so- big as the' large white radish vMeh * 
n ■ f orm c 
fjte 
R. sativus has r 
■groups. the 
4 ,nf *di.sh?s, the. jr-ing 
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.winter radi. ihes« I It ake the 1 r g white redi $: 
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winter radish, that is to say if grown in Dur.op#$*-it wonl 
be eaten when over-wintered. How bang dees it take to 
mature in Malaya ? 
'That is wanted is material In 
whi oh 
the 
nature 
of 
aticn 
wi th 
Hie 
pods 
size 
whi ch 
the 
root 
help 
me at 
all 
9 
p 
I need to know what is the*larged 
Do the Chinese import seed ? I exp ot so. 
At last wo are getting something like spring, 
Yours ever 
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