My dear Sir

It is too bad to talk of asking “favours”!—¹

xx The Utricularia montana business: I mean as to its tenants— I fear you must settle, so I have sent a valuable little parcel— it goes today for yr. inspection.—² By the way I would suggest that you sh^d. retain the parcel until after Xmas-parcel-delivery work gets over when it might get astray.

Byblis: there are 2 species in Australia:—viz. B. liniflora, Salisb (of which B. filifolia, Pl. is a synonym) No. Australia & Queensland. &

B. gigantea, Lindl. (of which B. Lindleyana, Pl. is syn.) confined to W. Australia.³

Census of Drosera. Benth. & Hook. in their Genera Plant.^m estimate Drosera at 100 species.

Benth. has 41 spp. in Australia. Harvey & Sonder 8 spp. in Cape land. & 2 Roridulas⁴

Genlisea⁵   How stupid not to have put specimens in along with the Utricularia montana!—

I doubt now that I have referred to our spec^ns. your making much of them. Here is a fragment of leaf-tuft of one.— Genlisea is simply Utricularia with 5-lobed calyx.⁶ Several spp. are desc^d.—1 by me in Africa. They are desc^d. as “Herbae annuae, paludosæ”.⁷

Very sincerely yours | Danl. Olver