From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
24 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 199)
Summary:
Delayed thanking JL for two notes until he heard from Hooker about Acropera luteola; had no idea A. luteola was not a well-known name.
Cites his reasons for identifying A. loddigesii as male; hopes for a Gongora flower from Hooker which, JL suggested, may be the female.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project