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



spongy porous texture internally, and having on the summit, an 

 umbilicate spot of a lighter color, in the centre of which is a p< 

 or foramen. The specimen I examined was a vet unopened bud r 

 of the size of a good cabbage. I have information of others, and 

 as soon as I hear of their being blown, mean to take a journey to 

 see them in their native spot. 



March 22nd. — The business with the Frenchmen is drawing to 

 a close. The correspondence has become so long, and Sir S. is 

 anxious to send a copy home by the ship which sails tomorrow, 

 that I fear that I shall not be able to enclose it in this, but it 

 shall follow. 205 The committee have done their duty in taking 

 charge of all the specimens, in the course of which the Frenchmen 

 showed further their mean jealous spirit in refusing to give "speci- 

 fic names to the subjects, and taking oil' all the distinguishing 

 tickets that they had previously appended to them. The specimens 

 being received, the committee were directed to inform them, that 

 by the terms of their agreement, they were bound to deliver up the 

 observations, and that if they assented to this, and gave their word 

 of honor that the whole of the collections were made over without 

 reservation, they were authorised to make them an offer winch was, 

 that if they would agree not to publish in France till the expira- 

 tion of a year, their descriptions should all be returned to them, 

 and a complete set of duplicates still given to France. 



Duvaucel I understand is going to Batavia, thence to Bengal : 

 and Diard talks of going to Padang to prosecute further researches. 

 The sooner they go the better and a good riddance. Let me know 

 what they say or do in Calcutta. 



I send by this ship, the " Mary," 206 Indian ink drawings of 

 the two Nepenthes, the gigantic flower, 207 the Camphor, and of 

 that beautiful pentandrian with finely veined and serrated leaves 

 and white fruit. I have named it Euthemis, 208 ah ** euthemon ** — 

 concinus, quid dicis? The two species are E. leucocarpa and E. 

 minor. I have also sent descriptions of these and of the true Sago. 

 They go to Mr. Marsden with instructions to take such notice of 

 them as may prevent anticipation, at the same time that he is 

 apprised of the intention of publishing them afterwards in a 

 fascicle. It would not I think be easy to select other five as in- 

 teresting. I must soon send you a copy of my account of these. 

 I shall ere long have lots of descriptions for you. 



205. Jack succeeded in sending to Wallich by the same boat copies of 

 that part of the correspondence which is in English, but not that in French ; 

 Baffles, however seut the whole to London. It is useless to reproduce 

 here the part, not only because it is imperfect, but because the whole, re- 

 printed from Baffles' despatch, may be read in the Memoir of his Life, 1st 

 Edition pp. 702-723. 



206. The same beat was to take to Marsden the whole of Baffles' 

 geological collections, as stated in a letter contained in the Memoir of 

 Sir T. S. Baffles, 2nd edition, ii. p. 103. 



207. Babesia Arnoldi, B, Br. 



208. Euthemis was defined by Jack in the Malayan Miscellanies, i.. 

 (1820) part 5, p. 15, with two species. See not No. Ill on p. 179. 



Jour. Straits Branch. 



