TO DR. R. WIGHT. 



Look at his Chiouotria for instance. I am not without hopes 

 of knocking Anneslaea on the head for the purpose of restoring 

 Jacks prior name. Then why does Lindley refer Eurycoma 

 otherwise than Jack did, when he never saw specimens, it is 

 truly Connaraceous ; again why is Lecananthus a doubtful Apo- 

 cynea ! Jack does not say so. My idea of William J ack is, that he 

 was a first rate, and wonderfully accurate Botanist. Had he a fine 

 herbarium, and library? I now have of his genera the following, 

 Lecananthus, Adinandra, Ixonanthes, Eurycoma, Hydnophytum, 

 Pierardia, Rhodamnia, (your Monoxera ?) Chionotria and Pternandra, 

 but I shall tire you out. 



Malacca: July 17, 1842. 



I have seen (just seen) Lindley's elements. The wood-cuts are 

 capital. I have my doubt as to his systems, because he has too many, 

 the tendency of all these are however in the right direction ; I am 

 convinced the Cotyledonous one is the most practical. Founding one 

 on wood, when we dont know how wood is formed, is beginning 

 at the wrong end. 



Your account of Stemonurus fruit agrees with what I have seen, 

 I should say Stemonurus and Gomphandra are the same, but then I 

 judge without having seen authentic specimens. 



This place is very rich in Asclepiadeae, particularly Hoya, and 

 Dischidia: really comparatively speaking there is no end to them. 

 The last genus is variable in habit, that is to say, either with ascidia 

 or without : some have nothing but ascidia ; I mean with flat leaves 

 or concave ones. But the genus is endurable, although Blume 

 makes a Leptostemma. I dont like dried specimens of these, but 

 will not fail to send you all I have, either in spirits or not, I shall wait 

 for the Clarissa, which will be here in three months, I promise to 

 astonish you with novelties. Not one plant in ten is the same as at 

 Margue. Rhodamnia certainly is very like Monoxera, but then it has 

 not like the last, an irregular pyrena. The former has osseous seeds 

 in a berry with two parallel placentae, I have an eye on Terebin- 

 thacese. Indeed I intend working up my Malacca plants for Mc- 

 Clelland's journal, noticing those orders particularly on which I feel 

 strong : such as Ternstromiacese Verbenaceae — Symphorema by the 

 bye, is a true Verbenacea, and if you will give me leave to say, 



