166 JACK'S LETTERS TO WALLICH, 1819-1821. 



the Gloogor of the Malays. 66 I am much puzzled by it, and am 

 inclined to fancy it intermediate between Artocarpus and Cecropia. 

 I must discuss a number of these with you when I have more 

 leisure; however I must add to this a plant I found some days 

 ago, 67 which I have described and drawn. I enclose impressions 

 of its leaf and enlarged bract with pencil sketch of its infloresence 

 and flower. It appears to me allied to Porana, but it is the bract 

 not the calyx, which expands as the fruit ripens. The ovarium 

 is 4-sporous, the fruit 1-seeded, with the same contortuplicate 

 cotyledons as Porana. It is a weak spreading shrub ; it is further 

 digynous. Let me know, whether it is an acquaintance, or if you 

 think it new. 



Have you any acquaintance of the leaf I enclose, Xo. 183 and 

 96, I have not seen its flower or anything but the stem and leaves. 

 I have found here the true Sago, 68 certainly very different from the 

 Sagus Rapliia described as the true one by Lamarck. 



I must now turn to another subject, I have lately had some 

 conversation with Sir Stamford on my future plans, a subject we 

 had not before touched on since leaving Bengal. He has in conse • 

 quence addressed (pro forma) a letter to me requesting me to 

 accompany him on his further voyage to the Eastward, and offer- 

 ing me the appointment of Personal Surgeon to him retrospective- 

 ly from the 1st of January ; to this I of course gave an affirmative 

 reply, which he will forward with his own letter to Bengal and 

 request His Lordship's confirmation of the appointment. For 

 my own part, I would rather the arrangement had been # def erred 

 till I heard from you about our other schemes, 69 Mais le moyen 

 de l'eviter. I put him in mind of those plans and asked his 

 opinion concerning the notice to be taken of them in writing to 

 Bengal. He said they might be left to their own course, to which 

 I said, Amen. Now, my dear Wallich, I leave the conduct of all 

 that may be necessary to you. You know all the circumstances, 

 and you know me as well as yourself. Perhaps I have not been 

 successful, and then there is no more to be said. If I have, I 

 think there is no need that my acceptance of this situation should 

 render vain all the exertions of my friends. It may I think easily 

 be managed so that the one appointment should stand, and any 

 temporary arrangement be made for the duties, either by Mr. 



66. The Glugor is this case is obviously the Glugor salah Cyclostemon 

 longifolius, Blume: and the genus would be just as new to Wallich as to 

 Jack. 



67. Neuropeltis racemosa, Wall., obviously; but somehow no botanist 

 has found this plant in Penang subsequently. 



68. Metroxylon Sagus, Eottb. is the sago palm of most of Malaya. 

 Jack described it with great care under the name of Sagus Icevis for the 

 Malayan Miscellanies and this description, appearing again in Griffith's 

 Palms and elsewhere has generally been the foundation of those made 

 later in Floras. 



69. Apparently a reference to his wish for the post of Surgeon in 

 Champaran. 



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