Dr Wallich cm the Progress (^Botany in Bengal. S79 
Respecting the vegetables from the vicinity of Kathmandu, 
Dr Wallich writes, that he has forwarded many of them to Sir 
Joseph Banks, Mr Lambert, and Sir J. E. Smith, the two lat- 
ter of whom have all the specimens, drawings, and descriptions 
brought from Nepal by Dr Hamilton. To Mr Hooker, Dr 
Wallich, besides a variety of mosses, has transmitted most of 
his ferns, which of themselves form a very respectable collec- 
tion. He is about to publish a quarto volume of Contribu- 
tions to the Botany of India, which will contain a good number 
of plants from Nepal, with about thirty engravings. In this 
work, among other plants, will be given an account of the follow- 
ing: Fraxinus horibunda, Ligustrum nepalense, Wulfenia obli- 
qua, Utricularia rotundifolia, Mitrasacmi capillacea, an Ilex, se- 
veral species of Cornus and Gentiana; one of the latter Dr Wallich 
from its stem calls voluhilis ! several plants of the order Gentianae, 
but not of the genus so named ; some species of Lonicera that 
are new, besides the japonica ; a Hydrangea ; some species of 
Viburnum, Viola, Lysimachia, Primula, Androsace, and Mus- 
S 80 nda ; many species of Impatiens ; some plants of the orders 
of Umbellatje and Junceae, (the latter chiefly from Gossaign- 
sthan) ; a superb species of Lilium, mentioned by Dr Hamil- 
ton in his Account of Nepal ; several species of Melastoma, Sa- 
lix, Pinus, and other Coniferae ; an Acer ; several species of 
Thalictrum, Clematis, Bseobotrys, Symplocos, Gualtheria, An- 
dromeda, and Convallaria, one of which has cirrhi ; Fritillaria 
verticillata.?^ species without number of Laurus, or allied to that 
genus ; several Mimosas ; a Saxifraga, a Coriaria, an Agrimo- 
nia, a Drosera, nearly allied to the peltata of Sir J. E. Smith ; 
several of the Caryophyllaceas, innumerable Rosaceae, &c. &c. 
The Houttoynia cordata of Thunberg, Dr Wallich thinks is 
unquestionably the Polypora of Loureiro, who has most cor- 
rectly placed the plant in the Triandrla Trigynia. 
Dr Wallich has been so fortunate as to procure the ripe fruit 
of the Paris polyphylla of Dr Hamilton, who, not having seen 
it, was uncertain concerning the genus of this plant. This fruit 
Dr Wallich describes as a capsule; but as he does not mention 
its opening with valves, it may probably be considered as a dry 
berry. He says : Capsula exsucca flavescens l^vis globosa mag- 
nitudine cerasi mediocris, carinis 4 et 5 in^quali distantia no- 
tata, ad verticem plagula orbiculari marginata, subdepressa, 
