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tivity, seconded by the protection of the Company, have raised 

 the estabhshment to a high degree of prosperity. More than 

 three hundred gardeners or workmen are attached to it, and the 

 objects more particularly held in view are the naturalization 

 and diffusion of useful plants, and the preservation of the rarer 

 vegetables of the different parts of India for study. Numerous 

 travellers, sent out at the expense of the Company, traverse all 

 the countries subject to its domination, and, in concert with 

 the English dispersed over that vast empire, are continually 

 adding to the riches of the Company's garden and collections. 

 Dr WaUich himself travelled in 1820 through the country of 

 Nepal*, which, being situated at the base of the great Himalay- 

 an Mountains, presents a vegetation entirely different from that 

 of Bengal. After this, although labouring under severe diseases 

 caused by fatigue, he visited Penang, Singapore, the kingdom 

 of Ava, and some other parts of India. Besides this, he sent 

 collectors into the districts to which he could not go in person, 

 and by these various means collected a gi'eat mass of vegetables, 

 hving and dried. 



These collections have already enriched the science of bo- 

 tany with numerous discoveries. Several of the plants collect- 

 ed by Dr WaUich have been inserted in the Prodromus Flora; 

 Nepalensis of Don-f, and in various general works published in 

 Europe. Dr WaUich himself has, as has been said above, in- 

 serted a great number of them in the Flora Indica, and has 

 commenced the publication of two works intended to make known 

 the principal discoveries in a more complete manner. 



The first of these is his Tentamen Fierce: A'epalensisl, which 

 contains the full description, accompanied with a lithographic 

 figure, of the principal vegetables of that country. Two num- 

 bers have already appeared, each containing twenty-five plates. 

 Besides its botanical importance, this work deserves notice from 



" It is also written Nipal, Nepaul or Napaul, but Dr Wallich states that 

 Nepal answers best to the original name. 



■f Prodromus Flora Nepalensis, sive Enumeratio VegetcUnHum,, qvuB in ilinere 

 per Nepaliam detexit Fr. Hamilton ; Accedunt PlanUe a D. Wallich missiB 

 Auct. D. Don, 1 vol. 8vo. Londini, 1825. 



4: Tentamen Florm Nepalensis IllustratcB, consisting of botanical descri[). 

 tions and lithographic figures of select Nepal plants, by Nat. Wallich, Cal- 

 cutta and Serampore. Fol. Fasc I. 1824, II. 1826. 



