380 History of Ceylon Botany. 



up the study of ferns with an enthusiasm that characterised all his 

 actions. He formed an extensive herbarium of the ferns of the 

 world; and, in 1874, he arranged the large collection of exotic 

 species in the Peradeniya herbarium, to which he added from his 

 own collection. He was the author of two privately printed 

 pamphlets on the ferns of Ceylon, 'A Catalogue of the Ferns 

 indigenous to Ceylon, with Notes by G. W.,' London, 1873, 4to, 

 and a Check List, printed in 1879. He became a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society in 1872. He died at St. Thomas's Home, London, 

 December 18th, 1894, a few days after his arrival in England from 

 Ceylon. His name is commemorated in Trichomanes Wallii, Thw., 

 described in the 'Journal of Botany' for 1885, p. 274, and dis- 

 tributed as C. P. 3989.* 



The Rev. S. Owen G-lenie was Colonial Chaplain at Trin- 

 comalee, and collected for Thwaites. He became a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society in 1863, and the monotypic Sinhalese genus of 

 Sapindacetz Gleniea, Hook, fil., is dedicated to him.t 



Mention should perhaps here be made of a German descriptive 

 work by Baron Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez, entitled ' Ceylon. 

 Skizzen .... seines .... Pflanzenlebens,' &c, Brunswick, 1868, 

 folio, of which an English version appeared in the same year with the 

 title, ' Sketches of the .... vegetation .... of Ceylon.' This 

 is a narrative of travel, including a visit to Thwaites at Peradeniya, 

 illustrated by twenty-six large drawings lithographed by the author, 

 about half of which represent the vegetation of the island. 



Henry Trimen was born in Paddington, October 26th, 1843. 

 While still at King's College School he began to form an herbarium, 

 and in i860 entered the medical school of the College. After 

 spending one winter at Edinburgh University, he graduated as 

 M.B with honours, at the University of London in 1865. Shortly 

 afterwards he acted as medical officer in the Strand district, London, 

 during an epidemic of cholera, but his inclinations were obviously 

 towards botany rather than medicine. He had become a member 

 of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1864, and in London 

 took an active part in the Society of Amateur Botanists and the 

 Botanical Exchange Club. From 1866 to 1869 he was engaged, in 

 conjunction with Mr. (now Sir William) Thiselton Dyer, in the 

 preparation of the ' Flora of Middlesex,' a work which ever since 

 its publication in the latter year has been regarded in England as 

 the model for county floras. Devoted from the first to the study 

 of critical groups of plants, such as Rumex and Polygonum, he, in 

 the year in which the ' Flora ' was published, added to the British 

 list Wolffia arrhiza, the smallest of flowering plants, which happens 

 to be also a native of Ceylon. In the same year he became an 

 assistant in the Botanical Department of the British Museum, 



* ' Journ. Bot.,' 1895, p. 63. 



+ Thwaites's ' Enumeratio,' p. vii. 



