WCP3861

[1]¹

for)²

July 10th.

Old Orchard,

Broadstone

Wimborne.³

Lieu[tenan]t. Co[lone]l. Prani F.R.I.

Dear Sir⁴

Some weeks back I received the enclosed paper⁵ from D[octo]r Koorders⁶ of Java, but did not at the time connect it with a letter from him some months back, requesting me, where received, to send it to you. I now do so, with the letter⁷, the P.S. of which [2] as well as the latter part of the letter, refers to you & Sir Jos[eph]. Hooker.⁸ Will you please return the letter when you have copied the parts of interest to you.

The fuse plant of Feijoa Sellowiana⁹ which you were so kind as to send me two years ago, is now flowering abundantly in a sheltered S.W. corner of [my garden]¹⁰ opening its deep red flowers every morning, which the next day are so curled back as to show only [3] the [inlute?]¹¹ undersides the inner red surface of the petals being membranous and asparating[sic] from the under part as it curls back, I suppose this curious arrangement must have some purpose in connection with insect-attraction.

The alpine plants you were so good as to send me in the spring are mostly doing [well]¹² with others I received from Edinburgh & Glasgow Bot[anic]. Gardens, though we have had here a very bad two months drought. To save time and in obtaining [4] 2886¹³ 200¹⁴ several other[s].¹⁵primulas [which I wish for]¹⁶ should be greatly obliged if you could send me a few fresh seeds, as they ripen, of any of the following 20 species [which] you may have in sufficient quantity, and most of which you probably grow at Kew. (List Enclosed)

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]