I/th December, 
28 , 
My dear Burkill, 
I have received your letters of November l 6 th 
(Diet .166 on Curcuma) and November 20th, and the MS on 
Brassica. The R.A.S. journal is very much booked up 
for next year already (Chasen tells me he has more material 
than can be printed) so that I don’t knoiv /whether your 
■m 
paper could be accepted early. However, I might manage to 
put it into the Gardens Bulletin. My policy is to print 
'what I can, and if funds run short to ask for more. I 
don’t think they would be refused. I will let you know 
definitely a little later. 
Carr has given me a paper with descriptions 
and most excellent figures .of a number of new orchids and 
I want to print this as V0I.5 pai*t 1 , as Chasen is doubt¬ 
ful of accepting it. That would mean Hooper’s paper being 
nos.2 - if (if 100 pages), and I would cable you the first 
page number for it. I gather from your letters that it 
is not likely to go to press immediately. Vol.IV nos.11- 
12 is now in page proof. Your note on Blainvillea I have 
given to Henderson to incorporate sometime with other 
corrections of Ridley’s writings. 
As regards Curcumas, I have asked Ahmad to col¬ 
lect all he can and we will grow them. He says that 
formerly Ridley had a large collection in cultivation. 
I will also have some collected in Penang. Haniff has 
given me no reply about your enquiries from the ’’Medical 
Book of Malay Medicine”; I will remind him again shortly. 
