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6 July 1797
Received a box with roots from Siri Joseph Banks and a letter of which the following is a copy from Drii Dryander

Dear Sir

The roots contained in this box are come from Driii Roxburgh; the great number of live ones is what he calls Curcuma Zedoairiaiv the others in papers have all been numbered, but I am afraid the numbers cannot be read of all of them, they should be:

1 Costus spiciosusv
2 Orchis dependens[?]
3 Kempferiavi angustifolia
4 Orchis viridis
5 Amomum maximum
6 Kempferiavii galanga
7                  rotunda
8 Arum manchcanda[?]
9 Amomum tarracaviii
10ix  the Zedoairasx are certainly alive and one of the orchisisxi has made a shoot, how the others may be I don[']t know

Yours sincerely 

Saturday morning
Dryander[illeg][signature] J Dryander

i [Banks],[Joseph],[Sir],[Baronet 1],[1742-02-13-1820-06-19],[Botanist]
ii [Dryander],[Jonas],[Carlsson],[1748-03-05-1810-10-19],[Botanist]
iii [Roxburgh],[William],[Doctor],[1751-06-03-1815-02-18],[Botanist]
iv Zedoaria
v speciosus
vi Kaempferia
vii Kaempferia
viii taraca
ix the strikethrough could be a smudge
x Zedoarias
xi orchis