226 JACK'S LETTEES TO WALLICH, 1819-1821. 



Another curious gentleman that I found at Tello Dalam is a 

 Hypericum with dark purple flowers triadelpha stamina, alterna- 

 ting with a verv curious set of large yellow saccate nectaries. 209 

 I have here and on other parts of the coast, found a great number 

 of Orchideans, which I have described a la Brown, but they are 

 such a plaguy race, that I have not even attempted their dis- 

 covery, indeed I have not the requisite books. However I shall 

 perhaps come back upon them someday, and yet experience shows 

 that that arrears are bad tilings, the day of bringing them up 

 never arrives : it is so much pleasanter to go forward than go back. 

 I have two species of Rhopala 270 that I take to be new. both with 

 large sessile leaves, the one entire, the other strongly serrated 

 Of the latter I have the ripe fruit. At Tappanpoly I found 

 Fagra^a auriculata with flower not quite expanded, it must when 

 open be a flos giganteus. 271 Fagrasa racemosa 272 on P. Xias grows 

 to a small tree with a straight trunk and round bushy head. F. 

 volubilis is certainly only a twisted specimen of F. racemosa. 



Xattal Jan. 5th. — T find here a vessel which after remain- 

 ing sometime on this coast, goes up to Calcutta, and as other oppor- 

 tunities are uncertain. I shall close this and let it take its chance. 

 I hope to start in a few days for Bencoolen and to have a good 

 run. I shall be very glad to get back, and T find that Sir S. is 

 impatient for my return, which he expected before this, and truly 

 so did I. but there is no calculating on time where winds, waves, 

 and Xias people are concerned. — I shall only at present add my 

 best regards to Mrs. Wallich and yourself, and assure you that 



T am always. 



My dear Wallich, 



Yours Affectionately William Jack. 



Bencoolen. May 1st, 1821. 

 My dear Wallich, 



Were I not an extreme philosopher I believe I should be for 

 sending Bencoolen to the D — 1. It is four months since we have 

 had any arrival from Bengal, and I have no letter later than the 

 1st of July last from you. I fear there must have been some 

 losses, which will be very provoking. The only letters I have from 

 you since I left Bengal are Xo. 2 May 27th 1820. 



No. 4 July 1st 1820. ) 



r extra brief ! 

 Xo. 3 June 7th 1820. \ 



269. Obviously a Cratoxylon, and that described by Jack as Eloelea 

 sumatrana in the Malay. Miscellanies, ii. (1822) No. 7, p. 22, — Cratoxylon 

 Sumatra n u m , Blume. 



270. Rhopala as Jack used it = Helicia. Jack's B. attenuata and B. 

 moluccana are species of Helicia from Penang. His B. ovata is Helicia 

 ovata. Benn. from Tapj:>auooly. These two are additional and were never 

 described in print. 



271. Fagraa auriculata has flowers about six inches long. 



272. Fagraa racemosa, Jack in Wallich 's and Carey's revision of 

 Roxburgh's Flora Inclica, ii. (1824) p. 35, = Fagraa volubilis. 



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