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168/37. 
20th July, 
7. 
Dear Mr.Ramsbottom, 
Thank you very much for your letter about 
ArtocarpuE and for Mr.Taylor's notes on all my 
queries. Will you please say how grateful I am 
to him. 
I am afraid that I cannot agree that A, Integra 
(Thurib.) Merrill 1 b to be the Jack, Tbs type-specimen 
which Prof.SvedeliuB discovered is the Chempedak ana 
Thunberg'a own original description refers to the 
Chempedak only. This is only one of many examples ox 
an age-long misinterpretation of Bast Indian cultivated 
plants: other examples are aryatam ia corona ria, Melia 
excelsa , Q erhera odollam , C^el» MacaySSilS 
t riloba . Oratoxylon formosurn , PA3r^ 8n ^ a ff.E&ft'if.s, 
TW«»urea innla.vana. Of these, M.excel sa Jack (1822) 
and B.raalaya na Jack (1822) have never been re-discovered 
though the latter was said to be a common fruit-tree 
in Sumatra and M.excelsa I find to be a common village 
tree in Malaya. All theae names have been misused. 
Either we must interpret them by their types and 
original descriptions or we must adopt arbitrary names 
by special legislation, in which case all rules of 
taxonomy concerning priority and typifissation must be 
cast to the winds: we must have either one course 01 
J. Ranishottora, Esq.* , 
British Museum, 
Cromwell Road., 
London, SaW.7# 
ENGLAND. 
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