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undertake a trifling commission for me, which is, to find ont the 

 amount of subscription to the Geological Society, and get a re- 

 mittance for the sum from Calder, which you can forward to Mr. 

 Colebrooke on my account the first time you write him. I believe 

 it is usual for Members of these societies abroad to pay at once a 

 certain sum in lieu of all future payments, which is far the best 

 mode for us in India, and saves all after trouble. So pray let the 

 remittance be to that amount and effect. I would sooner have 

 been proposed for the Linnean, as being more in my way, but that 

 may come in good time. I told you of my having sent Lambert a 

 paper on the Cyrtandraeea?, I have since found a new plant of 

 that family which will form a new genus sub nomine, Aeschynan- 

 thus, 314 and to which I think Incarvillea parasitica, Eoxb. will be 

 properly referrable. Mine has axillary crimson flowers, exsert 

 stamina, four with the rudiment of a fifth. Capsule strictly pseudo 

 4 locnlar more Didymocarpi, but the seeds with an arista or long 

 hair at each end, and having something like an apophysis above. 

 I shall send the account of this additional gentleman to Lambert 

 to complete his paper. 315 I am putting together some of the most 

 interesting of my new genera, and I think I shall send them to 

 Mr. Colebrooke through you, so that they may have the benefit 

 of your corrections and remarks. They cannot be ready in time 

 for this occasion, but I shall try and have them ready in case of 

 another offering. Proposals are circulating here for a second 

 volume of the Malayan Miscellanies to be published by the mis- 

 sionaries if they get a sufficiency of subscriptions ; if they do, I 

 shall give them some plants to help them out. When it will be 

 finished is a matter of great doubt in Mr. Ward's 316 hands, for he 

 is the laziest animal I ever met with, and one of the stupidest. If 

 such are the people we are to meet in heaven. Lord help me out 

 of it. Did you know our junior surgeon here Lancaster, who died 

 lately; he was an odd and in some things not a very agreeable 

 man, but is a great loss to the settlement. A good for nothing 

 chap (a friend of Calder' s by the bye) Mr. MacCalman has been 

 put in temporarily but there is no wish to keep him here for good. 

 If you know any person, a married man in particular, who would 

 like a quiet settled situation of 650 rupees a month it might be 

 worth applying for. I should wish him to be junior to me. Mc- 

 Calman is a true highlander, with all the captious jealousy and 

 tenacionsness of his countrymen, among whom such qualities are 

 sometimes to be found, and has not contrived to make himself 

 agreeable here. He brought a letter to me from Calder, in conse- 



311. Aescliyncnthus was described by Jack with two species — A. 

 radicans and A. voluiilis. It would be the second to which he refers here. 



315. Lambert did as desired: after incorporating the new genus, he 

 communicated Jack's paper on Oyrtandraceae to the Linnean Society. 

 Brown had that on Melastomacea?; and Jack sent as he here proposes the 

 third paper to Colebrooke. 



316. See ncte No. 160, p. 192. 

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