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At Sylhet Station, 16 miles S.E. of Pundua, there are teclas, | 
isolated hills 100 feet high, and considerable tracts of jungle 
between and round them. This is very fine collecting ground ; 
here grow many orchids and figs, and -Asplenium dase 
which Wallich a “ Sillet.” Under n. 2278 Wallich writes 
“Sillet De S.,” “? B. Mont. Sillet, F. De Silva.” From this it 
is clear, as ee sak other entries, that Wallich distinguished 
between ‘Sillet,’ ze. the old (and present) Zilla, and the * Mont, 
Sillet’ or ‘ Mont. Sillet vicinae,’ by which he indicated Khasia. 
There are, however, a large number of plants poo vs Wallich 
*Sillet’’ only, which in all probability came from Khas This is 
especially the case in the first numbers 0-2160 ; shisrwarls Wallich 
was more careful. In the case of common, or widespread, plants 
at seems (even later) not to have troubled to write more than 
* Sillet.’ 
Pundua is the farthest point worth to which F. De Silva’s pont 
would go. He collected, from his boat, along the rich Ter 
(0-2000 feet alt.) along 5 southern face of the hills and : 
appears to have ticketed such collections simply ‘ Pundua,’ any 
of the plants thus ticketed ‘Pundua’ were (from our present 
knowledge of their distribution) ootleiwed at 2-6000 alt. rit some 
se into the hills. F. De Silva may have made 2 or ris 
Pundua would attempt collecting southward thence in the swamps— 
all the ‘ Pundua’ plants came from the 
None of the plants marked ‘ Sitlet can ‘go safely or profitably 
assigned to Khasia on Wallich’s authority. any we may strongly 
suspect to be Khasi, on abundant other evidence ; it is in all these 
cases useless to cite Wallich (i.c., for the locality eeeeth Lhe 
his examples ticketed ‘ Sillet’ adds nothing to our eviden 
to Khasi localities ; 3 it only proves that the plant was callestaa 
either in Sylhet or in Khas 
Any ‘ Khasi’ localities oe from Wallich’s List should include 
all the plants marked ‘Pundua,’ ‘ Montes Sillet’ and none of 
those marked ‘ Sillet.’ 
On some of Wallich’s sheets, the name Sillet has by some hand 
been ruled out and Singapore foisted in; as in the case of een 
longissimum and some other species belonging to the teelas at 
Sylhet Station. aaa sy 
25 August, 1896. 
The Wallichian Herbarium itself was gree in 1857 fro 
Soho Square to Burlington House In 1863 the Wallichian Col. 
lection was specifically exempted from the rgalation under which 
the miscellaneous collections of the Linnean ociety were disposed 
of and in 1873 the Herbarium was moved into the apartments 
at present occupied by the Society. 
When in 1872 the ag gt of the Flora of British India 
“was undertaken by Sir J. D. Hooker the Society’s Council, on Ist 
: Fe tots gay e permission he such specimens in the Wallichian 
— B1L04 B2 
