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I have met with a great misfortune, in losing the services of 

 my watch; it got a fall which has I believe dislocated the balance 

 wheel. I am the more annoyed as it cannot be repaired here, and 

 I have a value for it. I will send it up to you, and will you have 

 the kindness to send it to the best watch-maker in Calcutta to be 

 repaired. I know not whether I shall be able to send you anything 

 by this occasion, but will if I can, and if not per next. 



My best regards to Mrs. Wallich, and Believe me. 



My dear AVallich, 



Thine ever, 



William Jack. 

 Xo. 11. Bencoolen, 



Sept. 1st, 1819. 

 TBeceived Oct. 23rd]. 

 My dear Wallich, 



The vessel has not sailed so soon as was expected, which gives 

 me the opportunity of giving you a supplement to my last, and 

 adding a small sample of Sumatran novelties. I have not yet 

 got into the thick of them, to use a vulgar phrase, not however 

 from idleness, for I have been bringing up a good deal of arrears ; 

 among these there are some things worth giving you. The speci- 

 men Xo. 5 I have now ascertained to be as I supposed Roxb.'s 

 Grewia paniculata, lie which however is superseded by Microcos 

 tomentosa of Sir J. E. Smith, Bees* Cyclop, in loco, which agrees 

 most exactly. It is singular to find it so well described from a 

 specimen, which he says was imperfect and without even an indi- 

 cation of its native country. I perceive that Sir J. E. has availed 

 himself of specimens brought home by Mr. C. Smith^ 147 who will 

 have anticipated me in many things. I have further been investi- 

 gating the Kamooning, 148 concerning which there has been sad 

 confusion which I think I can now clear up, being acquainted now 

 with the three of Rumph. 



146. Jack's Xo. 5 would probably be a Penang plant. Grewia pani- 

 culata, Roxb., occurs there. 



147. Christopher Smith, was sent to Tahiti in H. M. S. Providence 

 in 1791, then as botanist to the Honourable East India Company to the 

 Moluccas (see note Xo. 1). and about 1805 was made Superintendent of 

 The Botanic Gardens there ; but he died in Penang either in the next year, 

 or immediately afterwards. His drawings and specimens may be found in 

 the British Museum of Xatural History, South Kensington. 



148. Jack wrote in the Malayan Miscellanies, i. (1820) p. 31, an ac- 

 count of the Kamuning. Eumpf as Jack says had figured, three plants, 

 first what he calls Camunium or Camuneng, which is the Chalcas paniculata 

 of Loureiro, and the Murraya paniculata of Jack, and Murraya exotica, 

 (2) the camunium sinense, which is Aglaia odorata of Loureiro, and (3) 

 the camunium japonense which is again Murraya exotica. Jack here ex- 

 plains to Wallich that the first is the true Kamuning; and in his note he 

 calls it Murraya paniculata ; the second is Aglaia odorata, and the third is 

 to be distinguished from the first as Murraya exotica. Unfortunately for 

 Jack's conclusions we have come back to Lamarck's position that the 

 Camunium of Eumpf and his Camunium japonense are both Murraya 

 exotica. 



E. A. Soc. No. 73, 1916. 



