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WCP2126

Letter (WCP2126.2016)

[1]1

ROYAL GARDENS KEW

DIRECTOR

23. XII. 11

Dear Sir

The Director2 requests me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st3 with specimens of two interesting plants from Uganda.

The blue flowering plant is Pycnostachys Dawei, N. E. Brown, and was described in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1907, XLI, p. 18, from a plant raised at Kew from seed sent by Mr. Dawe of the Botanic and Forestry Dept Uganda.

The plant is not now in cultivation at Kew and we should much like to have some seeds.

A figure is being prepared from your specimen for the Botanical Magazine.

[2]

The Grass is Tricholaena nosea, Necs (sens. lat.) : — and we should be very grateful if you could send us another panicle in a more advanced condition. A few seeds would be acceptable also.

I am | Yours very truly | Arthur W. Hill4 [signature] | Asst. Director

Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace OM &c.

Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset.

1
In ARW’s handwriting, "Answered | Sent rest of seeds (6 in all)".
2
Prain, David (1857-1944). Scottish botanist who worked in India at the Calcutta Botanical Garden and went on to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
4
Hill, Arthur William (1875-1941). British botanist and taxonomist; Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1922-1941.

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Transcribed by Murray, Wayne [2018-10-24] Transcription checked by Murray, Wayn [2018-10-24] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2025-03-03]

Please cite as “WCP2126,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2126