WCP5533

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Fort de Kock,¹

2 May 1924.

E. JACOBSON.

Fort de Kock (Sumatra).

To the Director

of the Botanical Gardens,

Kew (London).

Dear Sir,

When I visited you at Kew, you asked me to send you if possible specimens of living

plants from this country.

I have now obtained here two tubers of the Amorphophallus titanum², which will be sent directly from the estate, where they have been found, to Padang³ and will be shipped from there to London. The B/L will be sent to you by the shippingagents [sic]; freight and charges from Padang to London will be payable at destination. The charges for packing and transport from the estate to Padang I will let you know as soon as I have been informed of them.

The locality where the plants are found is: Ampu Gadang⁴, situated in the coastal plain at about 100 meters, at the foot of the Mount Ophir ⁵, b not the one of Wallace's fame in Malacca, but in the Residency of Sumatra's Westcoast [sic]. The flowers reach an enormous size and I hope, that you will be successfull in rearing them.—

Yours sincerely, | Edward Jacobson [signature]

Received in excellent condition, with the exception of a small tuber which had rotted during transit.⁶

July 31st, 1924.

E.G.D.