1 64 A CATALOGUE OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS, &C. 



(1822). He remained here for five months residing in Singa- 

 pore in a house called Botany Hall on what is now Mount 

 Wallich near the New Harbour Docks. While here he met 

 Sir Stamford Raffles and William Jack and also G. 

 FiNLAYSON, all of whom contributed plants to his herbarium. 

 William Jack accompanied Raffles as botanist to Ben-, 

 coolen in Sumatra in December, 1818, and later went to 

 Penang. In both of these localities he made most extensive 

 collections and published two short papers in the Malayan 

 Miscellanies which have been reprinted in Hooker's Botanical 

 Magazine and later in the Indo-Malaysian Essays of this Society. 

 Jack's health broke down in 1822, and he died at Bencoolen 

 as he was starting for the Cape of Good Hope to recover his 

 health. A number of his plants were sent to WallicH and 

 distributed with the East Indian (Company's herbarium. The 

 rest with all his manuscripts and a large series of over 

 two thousand drawings were on board the illfated vessel, 

 the " Fame " which was burnt at sea on the way to England, 

 the whole collection being destroyed. Most of the plants 

 described by JACK from Penang and those that were sent by 

 him to Wallich have been re-discovered of late years, but a 

 few have escaped recent collectors, and it possible that some 

 of those which were distributed by Wallich as from Penang 

 were really collected in Sumatra. Jack's name has been asso- 

 ciated with several Malayan plants including the beautiful 

 Rubiaceous tree, Jackia otnata. 



George Finlayson was a native of Thurso, who became 

 Assistant Surgeon in the 8th Regiment of Light Dragoons 

 and was attached to the Mission from the Bengal Government 

 to Siam and Cochin China in 182 1. He returned to Singa- 

 pore in 1822 seriously ill with consumption and died shortly 

 after reaching England. 



He made good collections in the various part of the penin- 

 sula he visited, chiefly in Siam and Cochin China, and was 

 the first botanist to visit the Dindings where he collected 

 Draccena Fmlaysoiiiana which grows there to this day. 



Many of his plants were sent to the East India Company's 

 Herbarium and were finally distributed when that Herbarium 



