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Dtar Sir, 
1 har® rtceltrtd from Singapor# a list of your 
determinations of 
the 
Begonias 
of 
the 
herbarium of the 
Botanic hardens; 
and 
it seems 
to 
me 
that at this stage 
X can perhaps do a aarvlc# by aending to your •ona cora» 
ments, which you will, I 
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desire to be helpiUl, 
hope 
r«o*iv«. 
as made in 
a genuine 
In the first plaoe 
please accept 
my best 
thanks 
for the compliment which 
you 
have paid me in naming a 
a species after me. You 
will 
however 
find the 
name pre- 
occuplt<f by BurkAIXit > IXinn in Kiw Bull*19P.0,p. 40, 
It may be that th«re has been a copying mistake 
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in th* list which I havs rscsirsd, the nwnes B.yoxworthvi 
B. Nurii n havlbg been transposed; for Raniff and Mlir 
10199 at Singapore i» a oo-type of B^yoxworthyi a Ridley , 
flora *al, -^enins, 5,19^5,p, 311| but . the list calls It 
B^Huri i and calls Nur 12026 B^foxworthyl • 
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■ There are uncertainties regarding B, decora . The 
foundation of the name is to be found in a garden plant 
sent by Curtis to the firm of feitch, exhibited by them 
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under a wrong name (see Sard, Chron,) renamed by Stapf, 
commented on by Watson (Oarden and forest 5) and described 
by Nlchoison in an appendix to the Kew Bulletin, Kew has 
lost the original stoOk, but renewed its supply from 
a continental garden. You have seen In the Singapore 
collection two sheets collected by Curtis, one from Lankawl 
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which is to the north of Penang, and the other from 
^ (Kinong Biijong Ifalaka in central f:erak. The first you admit 
A as B, decora, but query the second. Few ^atson eaj^s that 
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