WCP810

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Old Orchard,

Braodstone,

Dorset.

June 19th. 1913

Dear Mrs Hudson

Many thanks for your nice plant of the Paradise Tree you have been so kind as to send me.

It is quite different from what I supposed it might be, but is something like a Queensland small tree I have had from Sir Thomas Hanbury’s garden at La Mortola¹ named Pithecol[l]obium [2] [word illeg.] [.] There are however a large number of species of Pithecol[l]obium from Brazil, and some of these may grow as far south as Uruguay. It is a genus near to the "Ing’as"[?] which I dare say you know, and ^which were very abundant in the Amazon valley. The Pithecol[l]obiums however have the seedpods curved, or twisted round, or even spiral.

I am getting on fairly well, but cannot do so much in the garden and [3] greenhouse as I should like to do.

We shall be glad to see you whenever you can make it convenient to call

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