A CATALOGUE OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS,&C. 163 



Selaginella Wallichii, Spring. Wallich, Lady Dalhousie. 

 Selaginella Willdenovii, Spring. (C). 

 Selaginella caulescens, Spring. Wallich, Gaudichaud, 

 Selaginella can lescens, var. argentea, Wallich 127. Lady 

 Dalhousie. 



Selaginella ckrysocaulos, Spring. Wallich 127 bis. 

 Psihtnm triquetrnm Sw. collected by Wallich. 



THE BOTANISTS OF PENANG. 



The number of students of botany in Penang in past years 

 has not been great, and of some of those that are here men- 

 tioned I can get little or no information. Some whose names 

 appear associated with plants seem merely to have collected a 

 few specimens and transmitted them to Europe but as they 

 are sometimes the only authority for the occurrence of certain 

 plants in Penang, I have thought it as well to collect what 

 information I can about them. 



William Roxburgh was born in 1759 and took charge of 

 the Calcutta Gardens in 1793. He seems to have never 

 visited Penang, but received a certain number of living plants 

 thence which he cultivated in the Gardens, and described in 

 the Flora Indica published after his death in 1820. 



Some of these such as Melia tonientosa and Alpinia imitica 

 have not since been met with in Penang, and it is very likely 

 that they were either cultivated in Penang and sent to him 

 as if native there, or were wrongly labelled in the Calcutta 

 Gardens. 



In 1807 William Hunter, of the Bengal Medical Establish- 

 ment, published a paper in the Linnean Society's Transactions 

 on Gambier, as cultivated in Penang. 



Nathaniel Wallich was born in Copenhagen in 1786. 

 and went to India in 1807, taking charge of the Calcutta 

 Gardens then belonging to the East India Company in 18 15. 

 He made his first great exploring expedition into Nepal in 

 1820, and returning thence ill went for a voyage to Penang 

 and Singapore and visited several other parts of the Peninsula 



