Dec[ember] 31st/[18]69
ROYAL GARDENS KEW
Dear Munro*1
[1 word illeg.] sends word that your [1 word crossed out, illeg.] Arundinaria[?] [1 word illeg.] is his A Sinica[?] published in [2 words illeg.] Nat. before your paper was read at L. S.
Also that Dendrocalamus[?] latiflorus is the largest of the Chinese species, usually 20--30 ft high the young shoots of which are eaten. He begs to know if you are getting on with your -- Clavis

Synoptica Granum[?] or whatever else it is to be called.
A thousand good wishes of the season to you all.
Are you coming up for the Linnean meeting on the 17th? Babington[?], who will be there, & his wife will be staying with us at that time, & we should be so glad if you could meet them here, we could get up a bed.
I was hard at work

at the British Flora & shall have to ask your kind counsel [2 words illeg.] British paper

Most sinc[erel]y y[our]s | Jos D Hooker [signature]
I go to Torquay on Monday