My dear Hooker

You seem to have been terribly hard worked which makes me the more obliged to you about the names of the 2 enclosed plants.¹ The name of the Bignonia is certainly of importance to me. It resembles in its tendrils B. unguis. I have cut the whole top of my plant off & so have no other specimen.²

What you tell me about the Hanburya having tendrils is a sore grief to me.³ If making out the Jasminum is troublesome I can call it an unnamed Tropical species.⁴ Thank goodness I have nearly come to the end of my climbing paper⁵ & I am sure that you have cause to thank goodness also. I am particularly glad to hear a good account of the appearance of Scott, & I am glad you have told me.⁶ You have been uncommonly kind about him.

yours affectly. | Ch. Darwin