Letter from Theodor Hartweg to the secretary of Horticultural Society of London [George Bentham]

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Title: Letter from Theodor Hartweg to the secretary of Horticultural Society of London [George Bentham]

Scope & content: Written from Cuenca [Ecuador]

Letter No 57. Annotated 'Recd [received] May 10 1842. J.L. [John Lindley, assistant secretary of Horticultural Society of London]'

He travelled to Saruma [Zaruma, Ecuador] to enquire about the boxes he had sent, and found that 12 cases were still at Santa Rosa [Ecuador], two in Saruma and two in Paccha [Ecuador]; he expects them to have reached Guayaquil [Ecuador] by 24 Dec: 'the delay has been caused by some Indians, who had not arrived in time'; it is 'extremely difficult to send anything beyond the next village'; he found less than he expected during the journey, but the most interesting objects include a bulb with a greenish-yellow flower with stamens twice as long as the corolla, a large-rooted Gesneria, a palm, and some more seeds of the Tropaeolum mentioned previously, a new species without a tuberous root, and a woody stem up to three inches in diameter; he intends to stay in Riobamba [Ecuador] for a short while before travelling to Quito [Ecuador]

Hartweg's accounts for 13 Nov-13 Dec 1841 comprise 'monthly allowance' $50, 'wages of mozo [servant]' $9, 'keeping of two mules' $5.5 and 'repairing of guns' $4, and 'received in cash' $200 from D. Juan Aguilera [unidentified] in Cuenca