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[Letter to Hooker as Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow] [Page two contains a pen and ink drawing of 'el Fruta de Burro, Capparis pulcherrima'] Hamilton is sorry to hear that his parcel to Hooker, sent via Bristol, arrived at such cost and in such poor condition. It contained valuable specimens such as a pod of the Bignonia opthalmica, seeds of the Fevillea cordifolia, and some roots of Pancratium. The parcel last sent from Carthagena [Cartagena] contains a specimen of the Cassia depicted in Miss Watt's drawing, and a drawing and flowering specimens of the el Fruta de Burro – of which he sends a tracing of the drawing sent to him. He believes this is sufficient to show that it is a Capparis. He notes that as the medicinal Unona xylopioides is known in the missions of Guayana by the same name as the poisonous Fruta de Burro of Carthagena, it would not be amiss to give a figure and history of both in the Botanic Magazine. Hamilton has asked Watts to send to himself and Hooker specimens of his Convovulus neurophyllus. Regarding the 'el Guamacho', he is not yet sure that it is a Pereskia, but if it is it must be P. langispina not P. aculeata. Hamilton has received an interesting letter from Bancroft in which he notes that the position at the Jamaican Garden may yet be Hamilton's. Higson has been appointed pro tempore curator. Hamilton wants to complete his 'Consepctus Florae Indiae Occidentalis' or a 'Flora medicae Americae Meridionalis', or at least a 'Flora Jamaicensis'. His situation in Jamaica would allow him to resume unfinished experiments and he hopes that Hooker can offer some aid in securing this desirable appointment. He encloses a copy of his last paper on the Bignonia opthalmica [see press cutting folio 94a], which he does not think has been figured yet. The paper contains an account of Dr Chisholm's and Dr Careño's experiments. Page 1 of 4.

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[Letter to Hooker as Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow] [Page two contains a pen and ink drawing of 'el Fruta de Burro, Capparis pulcherrima'] Hamilton is sorry to hear that his parcel to Hooker, sent via Bristol, arrived at such cost and in such poor condition. It contained valuable specimens such as a pod of the Bignonia opthalmica, seeds of the Fevillea cordifolia, and some roots of Pancratium. The parcel last sent from Carthagena [Cartagena] contains a specimen of the Cassia depicted in Miss Watt's drawing, and a drawing and flowering specimens of the el Fruta de Burro – of which he sends a tracing of the drawing sent to him. He believes this is sufficient to show that it is a Capparis. He notes that as the medicinal Unona xylopioides is known in the missions of Guayana by the same name as the poisonous Fruta de Burro of Carthagena, it would not be amiss to give a figure and history of both in the Botanic Magazine. Hamilton has asked Watts to send to himself and Hooker specimens of his Convovulus neurophyllus. Regarding the 'el Guamacho', he is not yet sure that it is a Pereskia, but if it is it must be P. langispina not P. aculeata. Hamilton has received an interesting letter from Bancroft in which he notes that the position at the Jamaican Garden may yet be Hamilton's. Higson has been appointed pro tempore curator. Hamilton wants to complete his 'Consepctus Florae Indiae Occidentalis' or a 'Flora medicae Americae Meridionalis', or at least a 'Flora Jamaicensis'. His situation in Jamaica would allow him to resume unfinished experiments and he hopes that Hooker can offer some aid in securing this desirable appointment. He encloses a copy of his last paper on the Bignonia opthalmica [see press cutting folio 94a], which he does not think has been figured yet. The paper contains an account of Dr Chisholm's and Dr Careño's experiments. Page 1 of 4.

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[Letter to Hooker as Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow] [Page two contains a pen and ink drawing of 'el Fruta de Burro, Capparis pulcherrima'] Hamilton is sorry to hear that his parcel to Hooker, sent via Bristol, arrived at such cost and in such poor condition. It contained valuable specimens such as a pod of the Bignonia opthalmica, seeds of the Fevillea cordifolia, and some roots of Pancratium. The parcel last sent from Carthagena [Cartagena] contains a specimen of the Cassia depicted in Miss Watt's drawing, and a drawing and flowering specimens of the el Fruta de Burro – of which he sends a tracing of the drawing sent to him. He believes this is sufficient to show that it is a Capparis. He notes that as the medicinal Unona xylopioides is known in the missions of Guayana by the same name as the poisonous Fruta de Burro of Carthagena, it would not be amiss to give a figure and history of both in the Botanic Magazine. Hamilton has asked Watts to send to himself and Hooker specimens of his Convovulus neurophyllus. Regarding the 'el Guamacho', he is not yet sure that it is a Pereskia, but if it is it must be P. langispina not P. aculeata. Hamilton has received an interesting letter from Bancroft in which he notes that the position at the Jamaican Garden may yet be Hamilton's. Higson has been appointed pro tempore curator. Hamilton wants to complete his 'Consepctus Florae Indiae Occidentalis' or a 'Flora medicae Americae Meridionalis', or at least a 'Flora Jamaicensis'. His situation in Jamaica would allow him to resume unfinished experiments and he hopes that Hooker can offer some aid in securing this desirable appointment. He encloses a copy of his last paper on the Bignonia opthalmica [see press cutting folio 94a], which he does not think has been figured yet. The paper contains an account of Dr Chisholm's and Dr Careño's experiments. Page 1 of 4.