about 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. It is a very elegant 
Palm, and very beautiful when in fructification. The male and 
female spadices appear on the same plant, and arise from among 
a tuft of strong coarse fibres: the former enveloped in large 
imbricated spathas of a dark purple, streaked with yellow: these 
separate, and then a dense cluster of male spadices appear, of a 
nearly white colour. The male spadix is a compound spike, 
with violet-coloured ovaries. Such a plant is well suited to com- 
memorate Dr. Wallich’s labours in the field of science. His 
extended knowledge and his splendid works on Indian Botany, 
his liberal contributions to Kew and to every celebrated garden 
in Europe and the Colonies, and his generous and encouraging 
bearing to every student of plants, justly entitle him to a name 
among the “ Princes of the Vegetable Kingdom :” a name, too, 
given by his predecessor in the Directorship of the Calcutta 
Garden, Dr. Roxburgh. 
In as few words as we can, we must show the right that 
Roxburgh’s plant * has to the name Wallichia, in preference to 
Wallichia of other botanists who have delighted to honour our 
friend by a like compliment. Though the Palm had been long 
thus named by Dr. Roxburgh, it was not published till the ap- 
pearance of the third volume of the ‘ Plants of Coromandel,’ 
under the direction of Robert Brown, Ksq., in 1821. 
In 1824, Dr. Hamilton published this identical Palm under the 
name of Harina (a name having, probably, some reference to a 
deer), in his Commentary on the Hortus Amboinensis inserted in the 
fifth volume of the Transactions of the Wernerian Society of Na- 
_ tural History. In 1824, also, the late Professor De Candolle dedi- 
cated a Byttneriaceous genus to Dr. Wallich, in his ‘ Prodromus 
Syst. Natural. Plantar.’ vol.i.; but among errata, in the very 
last line of the volume, p. 740, he says, in explanation, though 
quite mistakingly referring to m1s Wallichia, “non Roxb. Cor., 
cujus Wallichia videtur Caryotee species.” 
In that part of the lithographic catalogue of the E. I. Com- 
pany’s Herbarium published in 1829, Dr. Wallich very properly 
altered De Candolle’s Wallichia to Microchlena, since there 
was already the good genus Wallichia of Roxburgh, established 
three years before De Candolle’s work came out. 
Wallichia of W.Jack’s MSS., mentioned in Dr. Carey’s edi- 
tion of Roxburgh’s ‘Flora Indica,’ vol. ii. p. 574, published in 
* In fact, Roxburgh himself had originally described the Palm in question 
under the name of Wrightia, but afterwards adopted the name Wallichia, on the 
former being applied to an Apocyneous plant by R. Brown, Esq.,in 1811. But 
the name Wrightia is still retained for the Palm in Roxburgh’s posthumous 
‘Flora Indica,’ published very nearly thirty years after his death. 
