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and the same? 133 M. grande, cordatum, Lam. and amplexicaule, 

 Roxb. are very badly defined, and not one of them agrees well with 

 my amplexicanl species, sent from Penang Xo. 223. 134 The other 

 Xo. 24:0, snbagrees with capitellatiim, edulc, ovatum and another of 

 Smith's in Kees. Xon nostra tantas componere lites. 



I must now close this long rambling letter, I hope to have 

 ere long some direct opportunity and to be able to send you some 

 things. I shall have now means, more than I had, of sending 

 hence plants, seeds, and everything for the increase for the garden. 



My" very best and kindest regards to Mrs. Wallich and believe 

 me. 



My dear Wallich, 



Thine ever, 



William Jack. 

 Xo. 10. Bencoolen, 



Aug. 26th, 1819. 

 [Received 29th, October, 



per Geo. Cruttenden]. 

 My dear Wallich, 



A second opportunity offers of writing to you via Madras, of 

 which I avail mvself to forward the duplicate of the Draft con- 

 tained in my last. I also sent you a few flowers of the Camphor 

 tree of Sumatra, which I am sure will delight you. I have found 

 means to send to Tappanooly for further and ample supplies, to- 

 gether with whatever other interesting plants can be procured. 

 This month has been the feast of Puassir among the natives during 

 which no business of any kind is done. In a few days more it 

 will be at an end, and all the chiefs come in a body to pay their 

 compliments to the Govr., after which business returns to its old 

 train. We have formed extensive plans for obtaining the pro- 

 ductions of all parts of the country which will then be commenced, 

 and mean to have occasionally councils of the chiefs for the pur- 

 pose of inquiries into all subjects of Natural History, on which 

 information can be obtained from them. 



I have taken a look over Sir Stamford's specimens of plants 

 found on the Menang Kaboo trip, 135 almost all of which are new 

 to me, and they have very much of an Alpine character. I ob- 

 served among them, a Rliopala, perhaps the serrata, 136 and two 



~~ 133. Yes. 



134. Certainly Memeoylon coeruleum, which Jack described in the 

 Malayan Miscellanies, i. (1820) No. 5 p. 26. 



135. Raffles had left Bencoolen early in July, 1818, for Padang; and 

 from there bad marched into the interior, starting on September 16th. 

 The naturalist Thomas Horsfield was of the party and went ahead carried 

 on the shoulders of four men in order that by arriving at the camping 

 places early he nrght gain time for botanising. The journey lasted fourteen 

 days, and covered 250 miles (vide Memoir of Sir Thomas Stamford Baffles 

 first edUion. pp. 314-368, or second edition, i. pp. 388-434). 



136. Eelicia serrata, Blume, which may occur in the mountains be- 

 hind Bencoolen. 



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



