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a Melastoma which I shall be glad to know what you say of; 

 it may be Osbeckia tetrandra, Eoxb. ; 45 



a Volkameria with beautiful hanging panicles/ 6 which I 

 suspect is one you have in the garden. 



two species of Melaleuca, 47 on which I wish to have your 

 opinion. 



a species of Corypha which I think is new. 



a new Morinda with terminal umbelled eapitula, and corolla 

 villous within and tetrandrous. 48 



a species of Connarus^ which from the name may perhaps be 

 Eoxburgh's C. paniculata. 



my new Mangifera quadrifida™ of which I have got a very 

 good drawing. 



I have numbered a greater part of them for the facility of 

 reference when you write. 



I enclose in this a leaf and some of the fruit of a beautiful 

 shrub whose flowers I have not seen. Is it an acquaintance of 

 yours? The leaf is so remarkable that it cannot be mistaken, it is 

 numbered 96. 



Sir Stamford has brought with him a number of specimens 

 which I have not yet gone through; among them however are no 

 less than three new and splendid species of Nepenthes! 51 from 

 Singapore, the new settlement. I must name one of them after 

 him, and Lady Raffles. I must keep her Tacca also. I shall have 



45. Possibly Bissochceta pallida, Blume, which was described by Jack 

 as Melastoma pallida in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 

 xiv. p. 12. 



46. Clerodendron nutans, Jack in this place and in the Malayan Mis- 

 cellanies, i. (1820) No. 1, p. 17, must have been C. penduliflorum, Wall. 



47. Melaleuca Leucadendron, (M. Cajuputi, Roxb.), is a very variable 

 plant. Bentham wrote of it as follows: — it "varies exceedingly in the 

 size, shape and texture of the leaves, in the young shoots very silky villous 

 or wooly, or the whole quite glabrous; in the short and dense or long and 

 interrupted spikes ; in the size of the flowers ; in the greenish-yellow, 

 whitish, pink or purple stamens etc., and at first sight it is difficult to 

 believe that all can be forms of one species." There is therefore no reason 

 to think that Jack had found in his second plant a species of this genus 

 now lost from the island. 



48. Morinda umbellata, Linn., which Jack thinking new described as 

 M. tetrandra in the Malayan Miscellanies, i. part 5, p. 13. 



49. Connarus ferrugineus, probably, which Jack described in the 

 Malayan Miscellanies, ii. part 7, p. 37. Wallich distributed Jack's speci- 

 mens under his number 8536, but without a specific name. 



50. Mangifera quadrifida. See note No. 4, p. 152. 



51. Nepenthes Bafflesiana, Jack, N. ampullaria, Jack and doubtless 

 N. gracilis, Korth. 



Raffles mentions them in a letter dated 10th June, 1819 {Memoir of 

 Life of Sir T. S. Baffles p. 381.) Sir William Hooker in the Botanical 

 Magazine under plate 4285 (1847) suggests that Jack was the actual dis- 

 coverer of N. Bafflesiana, but obviously in error. 



R. A. Soc, No. 73, 1916. 



