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probably interest you, as they promise to be new. There are speci- 

 mens of the Mimosa** I formerly mentioned to you as likely to be 

 Roxburgh's M. D jiringa! barbarous! why not call it Jiringa; it 

 is Dutch spelling he has adopted. There is another nearly related 

 species, with small red contorted legumes. 50 Observe also a 

 Melia" 1 which seems new, a species of Curculigo! 5 * a Bauhinia 

 with red flowers, 59 a most beautiful climber which displays its 

 blossoms of flame on the summits of the highest trees. Let me 

 know what you think of Xo. 3 with beautiful red arilled seeds, 60 

 which seems related to Celastrus, but is monospermous and capsule 

 bivalved. I could not observe any corolla in its flowers. Tell 

 me whether you think Roxburgh's Phyteuma begonifolia G1 really 

 belongs to that genus. I am doubtful. You can probably tell me 

 at once what species of El ceo car pus 62 is the one I have sent. Let 

 me have also your opinion on Xo. 124 a very singular and beau- 

 tiful pentandrous plant with crimson flowers, 03 which appears to 

 belong to the family of Combretacea?. 



I can make nothing of no. 131, but I have described it; is it 

 an acquaintance of yours? It was introduced here from the East- 

 ward. I send you a specimen of that beautiful Y olkameria or more 

 properly Clerodendron (if they are admissible as distinct genera) 

 with long hanging panicles. 64 I have sent a leaf of the new 

 Tacca. 65 I have only one spec, of the flower and it is not dry. 

 I shall be glad to know what you make of the next to it Xo. 146, 



55. Pithecolobium lobatum, Benth., which Jack described as Mimosa 

 Jiringa in" the Malayan Miscellanies, ii. 1820, No. 1, p. 14: and Wallich dis- 

 tributed specimens under his number 5268. 



56. Pithecolobium Clypearia, Benth. (Inga Clypearia, JacTc) des- 

 cribed by Jack in the Malayan Miscellanies, ii. (1822) No. 7, p. 78. 



57. Melia excelsa, Jack, in Malayan Miscellanies, i. part 1, p. 12, speci- 

 mens of which Wallich distributed under his number 1253. 



58. Curculigo latifolia, Dryand. (C. sumatrana, Boxb., Flora Tndica, 

 ii. p. 146) described from a plant grown in the Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 

 and redescribed by Jack in the Malayan Miscellanies i. (1820) No. 1 p. 7. 



59. Bauhinia bidentata, Jack, in Malayan Miscellanies, ii. (1822) 

 No. 7 p. 76, a common climber in Penang. 



60. Paracelastrus bivalvis, Wall., which was described by Jack as 

 Celastrus? bivalvis in Malayan Miscellanies, i. No. 5 p. 19. 



61. Pentaphragma begonifolium, Wall., named as Phyteuma begonii- 

 folium in Eoxburgh's Hortus bengalensis, and described in the Flora indica. 

 Jack described it in the Malayan Miscellanies i. (1820) No. 1 p. 5, with the 

 remark that possibly it ought to constitute a new genus. 



62. Elceocarpus. There is nothing by which this can be identified. 

 We know that Jack obtained in Penang E. nitida and E. Integra, but 

 these are two only of several which occur in the island. 



63. Lumnitzera coccinea, W. &. A., described by Jack as Pyrrhanthus 

 littoreus in the Malayan Miscellanies, ii. No. 7, p. 57. Wallich though using 

 Jack's name does not catalogue plants from him, under his No. 4018. 



64. Clerodendron penduliflorum, vide note No. 46. 



65. Tacca cristata, vide note No. 39. 

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