Old Orchard,
Broadstone,
Wimborne.
Decr. 21st. 1911
The Director Roy. Bot. Gardens, Kew
Dear Sir3
Last July (early) my wife4 received a few seeds from a lady, who had received them from her sister in Uganda collected while she was travelling in the Highlands.
They were sown at once, and are now in flower — and I send you specimens in a cardboard [2] cylinder by same post. The Salvia? is 4 to 5 feet high, and is, presumably, an annual; and from its flowering so quickly under the dreadfully sunless & ever dark foggy days of the last 2 months, seems to indicate that it would make a very useful & ornamental h. hardy annual.
I shall be glad to know if you have had it in flower & can give me the name.
[3] My wife has a few more seeds & can send you a small quantity if you wish to try them.
Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]
In Stapf’s handwriting, "Pycnostaclys Dawei, H. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1907. Seeds desired XLI p. 18
Tricholaera rosea. Nees, sens. lat. another specimen desired when more fully out.
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3863.3782)]
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Please cite as “WCP3863,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on