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will be, I think, three or four new genera and more 
new species. Amongst the former is the beautiful 
Asjogam of the Hortus Malabaricus, vol. v. tab. 59, 
which I think will make a very distinet new genus, 
and have called it after the late Sir William Jones, 
whose botanical knowledge well entitles his me- 
mory to this mark of regard*: amongst his MSS. 
was found a paper (70—80 pages in fol.), entitled 
Botanical Observations on select Indian Plants, 
which will be published in our next volume (the 
Ath) of Asiatic Researches. Amongst them I found 
a description of this lovely small tree: a copy of it 
I send you along with my own description and 
drawing, with the hopes of your giving one of them 
an early place in one of your valuable publications. 
I hope it will prove deserving of being so placed. 
The drawings are very exact, though not elegant. 
And may I further request of you to insert a better 
panegyric on so great a character? He was a most 
surprising man, and the complete gentleman. 
You will have learned that the bark of Corchorus 
olitorius and capsularts is equal to the best flax, a 
fortunate discovery for India, and for our manufac- 
turers at home. Do you find that it was ever used 
by the ancients, or any other people, as a substitute 
for flax? Rumphius just mentions this quality. 
From time immemorial the Bengalese have known 
* Of this genus, which was established by Dr. Roxburgh in 
the Asiatic Researches, iv. p. 853, a singularly beautiful species, 
the Jonesia Asoca, has lately been introduced into our gardens, 
and was figured in a recent Number of the Botanical Magazine, 
plate 3018. 
