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Stems thick, transparent + watery Growing very sparringly on rocks in middle of torrent - roots under water, appearance like seaweed Com. J.J. Monteiro 1/73; Seen nowhere else; To Prof. [Oliver] Poitiers February 1, 1873. Dear Sir, Your Podostema is quite new to me and into the bargain, a new genus, which I will call, if you see no objection to my so doing, Angolaea. Annexed is a diagnosis which I intend like-wise to send to DC. so that he may insert it in the addenda of the vol. of Prodromus, now under press. If however you [illegible] to name and publish the plant yourself, [I may] make no "bones" about it and only just let me know. - I am glad to hear you are all going on well in Kew; [I may] remember [you] very kindly to them and believe [me]. Yours very sincereley, HA Weddell; plant diagnosis given; pollen material from this specimen sent to D. [Sulungstrue] Duke NC Date: 8.XII.1971