Herbarium catalogue

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COPY. May 8th, 1923. Dear Mr. Magor, i agree with you in looking upon the flowering plant you sent me as something different from Rh. galac- tinum (Wilson 4254). I have looked through our own galactinums without finding anything like it. The com- périson must be confined to the leaves as I have not seen flowers of gélactinum. (I have no record of its flower- ing yet - perhaps it has.) But the indumentum is quite different. I would not put it with either the fFalconeri Series or the Lacteum. The ovary is remarkable - neither bristles nor glands. It suggests to me more affinity with the set of Grande. The indument rather favours that; it has a very small calyx; the mortar-shaped flower; 14 stamens. We must consider it as coming from Szechwan. Now to my mind the only described Szechwan plant comparable with it is Rh. Watsonii which from the description in Plant. Wils. might almost pass for it but as we have some material of Watsonii we know it is not that species (assuming our Watsonii to be correct). td I 9 Fs w S c=] 9) Hs 94 lee) >O ae | fo Ras oie Za ) ) es Po oy Wilson's nos. of Watsonii are 4251, 4244. This would suggest proximity of area when 4254 is given to galactinum. For these reasons I would place it provisionally as probably a new species of Grande section near Watsonii. it may therefore have to get a distinct name. Have you anyone you wish to commemorate? Or is it to have a name such es 'advena', or ‘'peregrinum', suggesting a 'stranger' or unexpected arrival? | it would be satisfactory if an opportunity should come for comparison with galactinum in flower. Yours sincerely 3 WILLIAM WRIGHT SMITH.

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