21 Jan 1858 [notes] [3] (seq. 650)

For Dr Gray

Is Alophia Herb. a good genus? I have this plant from
Bigelow & also from Wright's earlier Texan Coll.
— Which one You sent me a duplicate from a
N. Mex or Texan Coll. — probably by Lindheimer.
— but the the plant is bulbiferous — not tuberiferus
as I think Herbert has it. I did not get
the specific name. Can you refer to Bot. Mag.
sub t. 3779? — Or perhaps you have it in
your herb.
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I have a speciman of N. 556 Wright, with young
fruit — but no flowers. It is evidently an Echites —
but can it be the same as the long-flowered one
with broad leaves (No. 557 Wright)? Tell me
what kind of a flower it has. It is not in
any of my Mex. Bound. Collections.
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the Apocyneous plant — Wright 1666 & Thurber 1032
(both from Magdalena, Sonora) has the seeds certainly
comose at illegible both ends. Look at your specimens but
be careful of the bunches of ? and you may
find them lying at end of the ? seed about it. This
would seem to exclude it from the Tribe Echiteae
& throw it into illegible Alstonieae — but I have not yet deter-
mined whether the cotyledons are convolute. Nevertheless
I strongly suspect that our plant is Haplophyton, Due
(in Prodr. 8, p. 412) & that the artist of Moc.& Sesse's drawings
has made a mistake about illegible the coma.
It may even be H. cimicidum Due. the chief difference