484 The Palms of British East India. 



These are the synonyms which are the most concerned, 

 but the name Wallichia has also been applied to a Rubiace- 

 ous genus, the Axanthes of Blume ; also Dr. Wallich* states 

 by Roxburgh himself in his MSS. to another Rubiaceous 

 genus, the Urophyllum of Jack. 



Both Harina of Hamilton and Wallichia of De Candolle, 

 appear to have been adopted without remark by the genera- 

 lity of Botanists, except by Reichenbach,f Bartling,J and 

 Lindley,§ none of whom, however, take any notice of Harina. 

 Harina may, still, through Dr. Martius|| be now considered 

 as quite current, although in favour of Wallichia there is 

 claim of priority of seven years. And as for the Wallichia 

 of De Candolle, it is so far from being so distinct as that 

 Botanist considered it, that it has already merged into 

 Microchlsena, which again is considered by that very com- 

 petent authority, Dr. Wight, as not distinct from Erio- 

 chlaena. 



It is I think singular, and not less consoling to colonial 

 Botanists, that a genus belonging to so notable a family as 

 Palms, and published in such an enormous, conspicuous, and 

 well-known work as the Coromandel Plants, should have 

 been overlooked by two Botanists, one writing at Geneva, 

 the other in Edinburgh. For the appearance of Wrightea 

 in the Flora Indica, twenty-one years after that of Wrightea 

 of Mr. Brown, Dr. Wallich may be considered responsible, 

 because from his office, professed friendship, and reiterated 

 veneration for Dr. Roxburgh, he ought to have been the 

 Editor of the second edition of that work, which from want 

 of proper supervision is so much disfigured by obscurities 

 and typographical errors. 



* Flor. ind. ed. Carey. 2. p. 674. f Consp. Regn. Veg. p. 72. 



% Ord. Natur. PI. p. 65. § Introd. Nat. Ord. p. 346. 



|| Palm. p. 188, where no remark is made on the change of name from Wallichia, 

 under which it appeared in his Programma, p. 17. 



