JACK'S LETTEES TO WALLICH, 1819-1821. 175 



Speciosa, 92 Ardisia u nib ell 'a fa,* 3 Scavola Taccada* 4 Nympka'a 

 xtelhttft;' 7 ' Brugmera gymnorrhiza™ and Rhizophora mucronaia, 01 

 Barringtonia racemosa,* 8 &c. &e. 



I hope to leave this in a week from this time ; I am heartily 

 sick of the place, and most anxious to get to Bencoolen, and receive 

 your letters. 



A paper which I saw some little time ago, conveyed to me 

 the first intimation of your late loss, 1 '' - ' which I learnt with much 

 concern. I trust ere this reaches jou, the time for condolence 

 will have passed, and will therefore forbear the subject, especially 

 as I know how useless are words in those trials which are beyond 

 our control, and for which there is no remedy but resignation. 



Present my very best regards to Mrs. TVallich, 



and believe me 



to be most sincerely yours 



William Jack. 



P.S. Excuse the haste apparent in the letter. 



Penang May 19th, 1819. 

 My dear Wallich, 



I have a favor of a very unusual kind to ask you, of which 

 a little explanation is necessary. I have given you some account 

 of the Acheen affairs, and you know somewhat of its iniquities. 

 The party have spared no means to carry their point; among other 

 things a letter appeared in the Calcutta Journal, the writer of 



92. There is considerable interest in this record of Guettarda speciosa, 

 if from Penang. It is a common sea-shore tree and is known to occur in 

 Kedah and on the inlands north of Penang, as "well as on the coasts well 

 to the south. But Curtis never found it in Penang, nor are there speci- 

 mens in the Singapore Herbarium thence. Unfortunately there is evidence 

 that Jack visited the Kedah coast, and no evidence here that Jack got the 

 Guettarda on Penang island. 



93. Ardisia umbeUata, Both, is A. humilis, Yahl, known to occur in 

 Penang. 



94. ScoBvda Taccada is S. Koenigii, Yahl, common on the coast of 

 Penang. 



95. Nymphcea stellata, Willd. is common in Penang now in ditches 

 about rice fields, etc; but may have been rare in Jack's time. 



96. Bruguiera gymnorrhisa, Lamk., is not recorded by Curtis as a 

 plant of Penang, nor by anyone else: but there is one old specimen in the 

 Singapore herbarium. 



97. JRhizophora mucronata, Lamk., is not recorded by Curtis as a 

 plant of Penang, nor by anyone else: but there is no unlikelihood of its 

 occurrence. However we find it mentioned here along with several plants 

 which may have been brought by Jack from the mainland. 



98. Barringtonia racemosa, Boxb., is not recorded by Curtis as a plant 

 of Penang; but a specimen from the islet of Pulau Tikus on the north 

 coast is in the Singapore herbarium. 



99. Apparently the death of an infant. 

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



