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the umbels are often disposed in terminal panicles as well as 

 axillary. I have ascertained another point, which it may be worth 

 while to attend to when yon come so far in printing Roxb/s Flora, 

 which is that Cordia campanulata E. is the same with C. sub- 

 cordata Lamarck. 111 



I am afraid the Singapore specimens will scarcely be dry 

 enough for transmission : however I shall send a few that I think 

 will bear it, and you shall have further dispatches from Bencoolen, 

 which I am now very anxious to reach. I shall not be surprised 

 if this should in time become our head-quarters, and by all accounts 

 it will be much preferable to Bencoolen, which is sadly out of 

 the way. 



I send this by Dr. Smith of the 20th N".I. — and regret that 

 I have not more to send by so' good an opportunity. However I 

 shall have another soon after I arrive at Bencoolen, when I will 

 begin to get things in order, which I cannot do in the way we 

 are living here. 



June 15th. — I am in hopes we shall not be detained here 

 much longer. I send half a dozen specimens, just to show that 

 I am doing something. There is one very beautiful species of 

 Loranthus among them. 112 Pray is the tree I sent you from 

 Penang as a Pinus, and afterwards discovered not to be so, the 

 Juniperus elata, Roxb. ? 113 the name and nativity render it highly 

 probable. 



The beautiful white-fruited shrub 114 Xo. 183 of your speci- 

 mens is very abundant here, as also a second and smaller species 

 of the same genus, with red fruit. 115 I suspect it to be a new 

 genus, what think you? The generic character will be as follows : — 

 Calyx inferus, 5-phyllus parens. Corolla (alba) 5-petala, petalis 

 renexopatentibus calyce duplo longioribus. Stamina 5 hypogyna. 

 Filamenta brevissima. Antherae longae in con um conniventes, apice 

 acuminata? poro dehiscentes. Stylus longitudine staminum. Bacca 

 supera, 5-sperma vel 5 pyrena, seminibus arillatis, arillo fibrosa, 

 embryone inverso cvlinclrico, longitudine seminis, albumin e in- 

 cluso. Folia pulcherrima striata nervis transversis parallelis. In 

 some specimens there were five yellow filaments like abortive 

 anthers alternating with the true stamina, but they were not 

 constant. 



111. Later botanists have confirmed this. 



112. Loranthus coccineus, Jack, apparently. It was described by him 

 in the Malayan Miscellanies, i. (1820) No. 1, p. 8. 



113. Yes; it is: and it is now known as Dacrydium datum, Wall.: 

 see note p. 101. 



114. Euthemis leucocarpa, Jack, which is a plant common locally in 

 Singapore island. The genus Euthemis was quite new in Jack 's time, and 

 so distinct that later botanists have made of it a distinct tribe of the order 

 Ochnacese. 



115. Euthemis minor, Jack, described by him along with the last in 

 the Malayan Miscellanies, i. (1820) p. 18. It has only been collected again 

 in the island of Singapore (Choa-Chu-Kang, Eidley) once since Jack's, 

 time, and once on the islet of Pulau Battam to the south. 



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



