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and determined to be a new genus. I have called it Epithinia 

 (i.e. littorea from its habitat). 241 How often when making a 

 name when you think you have hit on a highly classical one, which 

 you flatter yourself is unoccupied, turn to Brown and lo ! you are 

 anticipated. For this I thought I had made a capital inovation 

 of Aegialites, but on turning to the Prodromus 242 behold it gracing 

 the shores of A T ew Holland, instead of Singapore. So I must re- 

 duce to a vile Epithinia. Of the enclosed descriptions the Euthe- 

 mides 243 have gone home. The Eueheliar 44 and Ardisia 245 are 

 copies of our common Mems. Styphelia 246 you will see I have 

 completed, we were interrupted in the middle of it. I have ascer- 

 tained in other specimens that the anthers do burst in the middle, 

 so as to be only one celled as so admirably described by Brown; 

 we did not find any anthers spontaneously burst, and therefore 

 put a " vix non ut in Brown Prod. H." which need not now be so 

 ceremoniously stated. 



For the three valved capsular plant which follows Patisna, 247 

 I have not thought of a name yet. It comes near to Yareca, 

 but is valved not baccate. You have had specimens of it. What 

 may it be, or what shall it be called. On second thought it must 

 belong to Pittosporeae, Br., vix opinor ejusdem generis, the seeds 

 having no pitch on them ! 



What do you make of my Hypsogyne 248 sent in my last. ? I 

 think it is new. It is a great bore the huge distance that separates 

 us. One is so long of getting an answer to a question, and I have 

 hundreds that I would ask if we were nearer. Recollect the list 

 of queries and descriptions that I gave you in one of my early 

 letters. The fair Monsoon is approaching for vessels to come here, 

 so fail not to write fully, now that you have fewer vexations and 

 interruptions. Let me know all your arrangements, how the edit- 

 ing of Roxburgh is to go on. How do you manage for books for 

 reference? you cannot carry all with you. 



241. Described in the Malayan Miscellanies, i. 1820, part 5, p. 12. Jack 

 however was forestalled by Gaertne*' who had called it Scyphyphora hydro- 

 phyllacea. It is common round the coasts of Malaya. 



242. Eobert Brown's Prodromus Flora? Novae-Hollandiae. 



243. See notes No. 114 and 115. 



244. Eucheka is not to be identified. 



245. Ardisia punctata, Jack, possibly. No description of this appeared 

 in the Malayan Miscellanies and it would appear as if it had been with- 

 drawn along with those of the Mangiferas for publication by Carey and 

 Wallich. A. punctata, Jack, is A. diver gens, Eoxb. 



246. A reference to Leucopogon malayanum, Jack in Malayan Mis- 

 cellanies, i. (1820) part 5, p. 20. 



247. Alscdeia perhaps. 



248. Hypsogyne is Salacia. See note No. 257 forward. 

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