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Wallace, in Geography, a fmall ifland near the coalt of 

 South Carolina. N. lat. 33° 54'. W. long. 78° 35'. 



WALLACE-Tftifn, a town of Scotland, in Ayrfhire, 

 founded about the middle of the eighteenth century by fir 

 Thomas Wallace ; 3 miles N.E. of Ayr. 



WALLACE, a river of Germany, which runs into the 

 Eras, at Lingen. 



WALLA PA TAM, a town of Hindooftan, in the 

 country of the Nayrs ; 14 miles W.N.W. of Palicaud- 

 chery. 



WALLASEA, an iiland in the German fea, on the 

 coaft of EfTex, at the mouths of the Coin and Black Water. 

 It contains two parifhes, Eafl and Weft Merfey. It is 

 .ibout four miles long, and one and a half broad. N. lat. 

 51° 38'. E. long. 0° 48'. 



WALLE, a town of Germany, in the county of Ver- 

 den ; 4 miles N. of Verden. 



WALLEBERGA, a town of Sweden, in the province 

 of Schonen ; 38 miles S. of Chriftianftadt. 



WALLENBURG, or Walenburg, a town of Swit- 

 zerland, and capital of a bailiwick, in the canton of Bale ; 

 1 2 miles S. of Bale. 



WALLENFELS, a town of Bavaria, in the biftiopric 

 oi Bamberg ; 7 miles E. of Cronach. 



WALLENIA, in Botany, was fo denominated by profef- 

 fcr Swartz, in honour of Matthew Wallen, efq., an Irifh gen- 

 tleman, longrcfident in Jamaica, the friend and coadjutor of 

 Dr. Patrick Browne, in his well-known Natural Hiftory of 

 that ifland. Mr. Wallen fpared no expence in the cultiva- 

 tion of plants. The ftoves of our moft diftinguifhed gar- 

 dens are indebted to him for their choiceft rarities. His 

 name occurs amongft the contributors to Kew Garden, and 

 he alfo fent many fine plants to the late marquis of Rocking- 

 ham ; amongft others, in the year 1778, the fplendid Eu- 

 phorbia punkea, Sm. Ic. Pift. t. 3, Curt. Mag. t. 1961, 

 which, being fuppofed a new genus, for fome time bore the 

 name of WaUenia, though without any fcientific claim to be 

 feparated from its congeners. — Swartz Prodr. 3 1 . Ind. Occ. 

 247. t. 6. Schreb. Gen. 789. WiUd. Sp. PI. v. i. 618. 

 Mart. Mill. Dia. V. 4. Poiret in Lamarck Di£l. v. 8. 

 785. Petefioides ; Jacq. Amer. 17.) — Clafs and order, 

 Tttrandr'ia Monogyma. Nat. Ord. uncertain. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, in four 

 creft obtufe fegments, permanent. Cor, of one petal, tu- 

 bular : tube cylindrical, ereft, longer than the calyx : limb 

 in four ihallow, ovate, obtufe, erecl, converging fegments. 

 Stam. Filaments four, inferted into the bafe of the corolla, 

 dilated at the bottom, half ereft, as long again as the corolla, 

 and rather fpreading in that portion beyond its limb ; an- 

 thers ovate, incumbent. Pijl- Germen fuperior, oblong ; 

 ftyle awl-fhaped, fliorter than the ftamens and corolla, 

 permanent ; ftigma fimple, obtufe. Peru. Berry roundifh, 

 of one cell. Seed folitary, roundifh, with a brittle (hell. 



Obf. Some male flowers occafionally occur, which have 

 no piftil, renderiiig the genus polygamous. Swartz. 



Eif. Ch. Calyx four-cleft, inferior. Corolla tubular, 

 four-cleft. Berry with one feed. 



I. W. laurifolia. Laurel-leaved WaUenia. Swartz. Ind. 

 Occ. 248. Willd. n. I. Poiret n. i. (Petefioides lauri- 

 folium ; Jacq. Amer. 17,3 temporary name only. Bryonia 

 nigra fruticofa, foliis laurinis, floribus racemofis fpeciofis ; 

 Sloane Jain. v. i. 234. t. 145. f. 2.) — Branches roimd. — 

 Native of bufhy places, on the mountains of Jamaica and 

 Hifpaniola, flowering in fpring and autumn. The Spaniards 

 call it Latirier. T\\^Jhm is woody, from ten to twenty feet 

 high, having a fniooth bark, and no thorns or prickles. 

 Branches long, fubdivided, round, as thick as a goofe-quill, 



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twining about every tiling in their way, marked with fcari 

 from the infertion of former foliage. Leaves on round 

 fmooth footftalks, (whether alternate or oppofite. Dr. 

 Swartz does not mention, nor can Sloane's figure be 

 trufted ; Jacquin fays alternate,) obovate, obtufe, entire, 

 fmooth, iTiining, llightly ribbed and ttriated, about four 

 inches long, and almoft half as broad in the middle. 

 Stipulas none. Panicle terminal, with fpreading, alternate, 

 partly level-topped, fubdivided branches. Flo'wers ftalked, 

 yellow, inodorous, about half an inch long, numerous, and, 

 according to Sloane, very beautiful. Berry fcarlet. The 

 calyx, corolla, fruit, and organs of impregnation, are fprin- 

 kled with glandular, orange-coloured dots. The ripe 

 berries are (lightly acid and aromatic, like the parts of the 

 Jloiver ; the feed taftes like the pepper tribe. Swaria. 



We cannot but remark that Willdenow copies, without 

 examination or fcruple, two errors from Swartz, in the re- 

 reference to Sloane. 



2. W. angularis. Angular-branched WaUenia. Jacq. 

 Hort. Schoenbr. v. i. 13. t. 30. Poiret n. 2. — Branches 

 angular. — Native of the Eaft Indies. Jacquin fays it is cul- 

 tivated in the ifland of Mauritius, from whence a living 

 plant was brought to the imperial garden at Schoenbrun. 

 It has flowered there in the ftove, every year in May, but 

 never bore any fruit. The Jlem, in the ifland above men- 

 tioned, attains the height of twenty-five feet, and is as thick 

 as a man's leg. Branches all angular, fmooth. Leaves 

 much like the foregoing, but larger ; alternate on the lower 

 part of each branch ; oppoCte, or even whorled, above ; 

 all very fmooth and fliining. Panicle terminal, ereft, many- 

 flowered, fomewhat corymbofe ; its ultimate divifions um- 

 bellate, or capitate. Flowers green, about the fize of fV, 

 laurifolia, but the calyx feems lefs deeply divided, more 

 hairy, and the corolla fmoother. Stigma downy. 



WALLENSEN, in Geography, a town of Weftphalia, 

 in the principahty of Calenberg; 15 miles S.E. of Ha- 

 meln. 



WALLENSTADT, a town of Switzerland, near the 

 E. end of Wallenftadt Lake, in the county of Sargan?, and 

 principal place of a bailiwick. This place has a Schul- 

 theife, and council of its own ; the firft of whom is nomi- 

 nated by the landvogt out of three burghers, prefented for 

 his approbation. It is a great thoroughfare for goods 

 to and from Italy. It is the place ^likewife where the 

 Switzers and Grifons hold their conciliatory meetings 

 on all claims made by either party ; 35 miles E.S.E. of 

 Zurich. 



Wallenstadt, a lake of Switzerland, furrounded with 

 mountains and fliarp rocks, which render the navigation dan- 

 gerous ; 9 miles long, and 2 wide ; 9 miles S. of Utznach. 



WALLER, Edmund, in Biography, an Englifti poet 

 of diftinguiflied celebrity, was the delcendant of an emi- 

 nent faniily, and born at ColefhiU, Hertfordfliire, in March 

 1605. His mother was the fifter of the famous Johp 

 Hampden. By the death of his father, when he was 

 an infant, he came into poffeflion of an eltate of 3500/. a 

 year. Having received his fchool education at Eton, he 

 was admitted at King's-college, in Cambridge ; and exhi- 

 biting fuperior talents, as well as poflefling powerful intereft, 

 ha became a member of parliament in his fixteenth or feven- 

 teenih year. Of his poetical talents he exhibited an inte- 

 refting fpecimen in his eighteenth year, by his verfes on the 

 " Prince's Efcape at St. Andero," which fur fiu-pafs in 

 poetical melody the prodiidlions of his predecedors. He 

 alfo, at an early period, augmented his patrimony by mar- 

 rying a rich city heirefs. IJuring the intermifiions of par- 

 liament, which occurred after the year 1628, he lived in a 



retired 



