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



3 Celtis attenuata. Frequent at Tappanooly. 171 



-I Taxus — Myrica neriifolia? Wall. Pumph.: 3. t. 26. Xepaul 



and Singapore. 172 



5 Uncaria lanosa. 173 



6 Posoqueria anisophvlla. described during examination. 174 



7 of the two Patisnas. 175 



8 of Ardisise panienlata? affinis, 176 



9 of your Myrica Kayphul. 177 



10 My description of Limonia ? leptostachya, 178 accompanying 

 the specimens: I have no other. 



Eoxb.'s short character of Urtica naucliflora, nnmero sta- 

 minum. 179 



What species was that which grew from seed from Penang 

 C folium ? also its spec. char. : — 



171. It is impossible to ascertain what this may have been, except by 

 search for a species common at Tappanooly. 



172. Podocarpus neriifolia, Don. 



173. Uncaria lanosa. Wallich in his and Carey's revision of Rox- 

 bugh's Flora Indica, ii. p. 131. is described from these specimens of Jack's. 



174. Posoqueria anisopliylla must be a synonym for Bandia anisopliyl- 

 la, Jack, described in Wallich and Carey's revision of Roxburgh's Flora 

 Indica, ii. p. 561. It is a common Penang tree, and Jack's specimens were 

 distributed by Wallich when breaking up the East India Company's her- 

 barium, as Xo. 8399. 



175. The genus Patisna was never published. The only genus which it 

 can have been is Urophyllum. Wallich had Jack's descriptions for publi- 

 cation at his discretion, and appears to have substituted this name of his 

 own for Jack's. That is why, in publishing Urophyllum, Wallich wrote 

 his own name after the genus, but Jack's after the two species. Griffith 

 (Calcutta Journal of Natural History iv. 184-1, p. 17) pointing this out 

 thought that Wallich had inadvertently written his own for Jack's name. 

 The two species are I', uillosum and U. glabrum. 



176. Ardisia divergens was described in Carey's and Wallich 's re- 

 vision of Roxburgh's Flora Indica ii. p. 275, and is placed by Wallich next 

 after A. paniculate:, Eoxb. in his Catalogue Xo. 2269, Jack's association 

 with the species being recorded by the citation of "punctata" as a synonym. 

 The species seems to have been unknown to Roxburgh, as it does not 

 appear in the 1832 edition of the Flora which was printed from the original 

 manuscript. 



177. Myrica aesculenta, Buch.-Ham., a common plant on the coasts 

 of Malaya, and very widely distributed in Asia. 



178. Limonia leptostachya, Jack, MS., is Galearia Jacliana, R. Br., 

 and remote from Limonia. It is to be noted that in this letter Jack 

 questions the genus: and as the only specimen which he had gathered was 

 not in his hands, but had been left with Wallich, probably it is not exactly 

 accurate to assert that Jack called it a Limonia, as it seems to have been 

 Wallich who dropped the query. 



179. Roxburgh's Urtica naucliflora is Conoceplialus suaveolens. This 

 enquiry shows that Jack's clerk in Calcutta, was yet far from getting to 

 the end of the work of copying the Flora Indica, 



Jour. Straits Branch 



