DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 
he first joined me, owing to an affection of 
the lungs contracted during the campaign in 
India; but it was a fever which carried him 
off. Poor fellow! he battled with it for 
months, and we had hopes to the last. The 
object nearest to his heart as he lay on his 
death-bed, and which indeed had filled his 
thoughts for months before, was the settle- 
ment of his brother Robert. His trip to 
Moco-Moco, where he caught the fever, 
was in a great measure undertaken with 
this view, and before we parted, he had my 
solemn pledge that I would serve his bro- 
ther to the utmost of my power; and this 
pledge I shall always be ready to redeem. 
Dr. Wallich has had the pleasure of giving 
your son's name to a noble tree, with pen- 
dent flowers and drooping fruit, alas! too 
emblematical of his early fate, which he 
has called Jackia ornata ; and we are de- 
sirous of placing an inscription over your 
Son's grave, and have written to Calcutta 
for a suitable stone." 
At Calcutta his zealous friend, Dr. Wal- 
lich, addressed the following letter to C. 
Lushington, Esq. Secretary to Government 
in the General Department :— 
“ Sir, —The friends of the late Mr. As- 
sistant-Surgeon, William Jack, being soli- 
citous to erect a monument to his memory 
in this (the Botanic) Garden, for which the 
Lord Bishop of Calcutta (Dr. Heber) has 
kindly offered to supply an inscription, I 
beg leave to request that the Right Ho- 
nourable the Governor-General in Council 
will be pleased to grant the sanction of 
Government for that undertaking. 
| “It is needless to dwell long on the 
merits of the late Mr. Jack as an eminent 
?olanist and a most zealous contributor to 
Science in general, they have been equaled 
—... by few, exceeded by none: they have re- 
.  Peatedly been brought to the notice of 
i the Supreme Jovernment by the late 
4 ieutenant-Governor of Sumatra; they 
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are gratefully inscribed on the records of 
this Institution, which has derived so much 
benefit from them; they are conspicuous 
on the pages of his numerous publications, 
and have been acknowledged by all; and 
I humbly submit that they are in every 
respect worthy of that high approbation 
which the concurrence of his Lordship in 
Council in the contemplated measure will 
imply. Signed, &c. 
N. WALLICH." 
To this it is almost needless to say a fa- 
vourable answer was given, and permission 
granted for erecting a monument to Mr. 
Jack within the precincts of the noblest 
Botanic Garden in the world. 
The published writings of Mr. Jack, as 
far as have come to my knowledge, are, 
* Descriptions of Malayan Plants," given 
in the first and succeeding volumes of the 
Malayan Miscellanies, and here re-pub- 
lished. Also in the same work, “ Memoran- 
dum of a Journey to the summit of Gunong 
Benko, or the Sugar-loaf Mountain, in 
the interior of Bencoolen"—* Short No- 
tice concerning the Island of Pulo Nias, 
with comparative Vocabularies in the 
of the Undang-Undang of Moco-Moco.” 
In the fourteenth volume of the Trans- 
actions of the Li Society, are a 
Paper “ on the Malayan Species of Melas- 
toma ;” “ on Cyrtandracee, a new Natu- 
ral Order of Plants ;” and lastly “ An 
Account of the Lansium and some other 
Genera of Malayan Plants.” 
DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 
(Continued from page 380 of the Botanical Journal. ) 
LAURUS INCRASSATUS. W.J. 
Foliis ovato-lanceolatis venosis, pedunculis 
fructus incrassatis rubris. 
Machilus medius, Rumph. Amb. 3. p. 70. 
i c 
Jaring javing tupai. Malay. 
Found at Natal, in the Island of Su- 
mici: 
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