Thwaites has just returned from a visit to Hakgalla [Hakgala] and Newera Eliya [Nuwara Eliya]. The Cinchonas are generally very healthy, but in some areas have been struck by high winds. He has brought some seeds of C. succirubra back with him, which he is sending to Hooker. He cannot understand why Hooker does not succeed in flowering Ipsea and Cyrtopera and suggests mixing peat with the loam in which they are planted. They grow amongst high grass in moist, peaty savannahs and fully exposed to the sun. The Ipsea grow at elevations up to 6000 feet and the Cyrtopera at over 1500 feet. He thanks Hooker for the Haworthias: they look promising, apart from H. retusa which arrived dead. Thwaites is angry that Mr Barnes let all the plants die in the little Wardian case he entrusted to him. He hopes that Hooker's trip to Switzerland has done him good. He has got a new fern: an Asplenium resembling A. thwaitesii, which he briefly describes. It grows in wet places and cannot be sent in a dry box. He also added an Elatostema to their list, which he thinks is E. Cuneatum, but has not yet had time to compare it to that species yet. Thwaites is delighted to hear that part three of GENERA PLANTARUM is near completion and that so many parts of SYNOPSIS FILICUM are out. He would be grateful for seeds of 'showy annuals' for Hakgalla. Pages 1 and 4 of 4.