218 JACK'S LETTERS TO WALLICH. 1819-1821. 



sary in any other work. They can also be circulated and I can 

 better have the advantage of remarks upon them. In a country 

 like this where new things, and new subjects are perpetually occur- 

 ing, the old ones lose their interest unless taken at the moment, 

 and what is once printed may be considered as finished and dis- 

 posed of, whereas if you go on accumulating, the mass becomes 

 too great and you are prevented by arrears from advancing. We 

 are now at leisure to attend to these things with the means at 

 hand; how can we promise that we shall have the same a year 

 hence? On all these accounts I have determined to print. Some 

 that I now send you will be contained in mine too, but that is 

 of no consequence; if mine is first out. you can quote, and if not, 

 your bringing it out is no prejudice to the other. The Mangiferae, 

 Rauwolfia sumatrana, Euthemis, Styphelia, Celastrus bivalvis, and 

 Morindae will probably he in this number. 2 - 7 Some I shall not 

 for fear of cross purposes about names. Patisnae 238 not in case 

 you should adopt Wallichia which T left at your option. I have 

 not found another Pentandrous genus to which to give that worthy 

 name. Euthemis unluckily has gone home and may come out 

 under that appellation, and I cannot here adopt it to any plant of 

 another class till I know whether you have a] (proved the Patisnae 

 or not. I once thought Rauwolfia new. and had fixed on it, but 

 it turned out otherwise. What sayest thou to Strophanthus plicata 

 from the plaited, not squamous faux? 239 Mind, not your original 

 proposal of my name, which I do not wish to see figure in that 

 way at all at all. 240 It is no object of my ambition, and the caco- 

 phony must not be suffered by such admirers of the classical graces 

 of Euphony as you and 1. To memory, put down that!! My 

 Didymocarpi and Sonerilae are now in the press. Do you recol- 

 lect a Singapore tetrandrus Rubiacea which we examined together 



237. There is a postscript to this letter which is to be read in con- 

 junction with the paragraph above. The postscript shows that before the 

 letter left Jack's hands, the mission press had actually sent to him proof 

 (some of it revised proof) towards the contemplated number. This proof 

 Jack sent on to Wallich asking for criticism, and waited. In a later letter 

 Jack says that he had had no letter from Wallich since a date previous to 

 this ; and so it is evident that the looked for criticism never came. Mean- 

 Avhile the time for publication came, and Jack issued the number as No. 5 

 of volume 1 of the Malayan Miscellanies having withdrawn from it a part 

 e.g. the Mangiferas. It would be most interesting if the unpublished proof 

 could be traced among the records of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. 



238. Patisna of Jack ined. otherwise Wallichia of Jack in these letters 

 and of Reinwardt in the Buitenzorg Gardens, published by Blume in his 

 catalogue, is Urophyllum of Wallich, vide note No. 188 on p. 198. 



239. It is evident that this is Wallich 's Strophanthus Jackianus 

 published in the Catalogue, No. 1643, which is Wrightia dubia Spreng. 

 Jack collected it in Penang where it grows. 



240. What Jack collected and sent to Wallich, became No. 1643 in 

 Wallich 's Catalogue. 



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



