WALLICH, NATHANIEL, a medical officer of the Bengal army, an eminent botanist. He collected plants in the Calcutta Carden, in Nepal, Singapore, Penang, Oudh, Rohilkhand, the valley of Deyra, Martaban Ava, etc., and had collections made in Sylhet by 'Francis de Silva, in Kamaon by Robert Blinkworth, in Srinaghur by Kamroop, in Tavoy and the Tenasserim coast by William Gomez. He had in addition specimens collected by Heyne in the Peninsula generally, by Noton in the Neilgherries, also by Moorcroft in the more elevated mountains boundina India on the north, in the Himalayan range bylr. Royle, in Sirmur by Mr. S. Webb and Dr. Govan, in Sylhet and Chittagong by Bruce, in Pundua by Smith, and in Penang by Porter. His Plantm Asiaticm Rariores, 3 volumes folio, contains 295 coloured lithographic plates, vvith monographs by Pro fessor Nees Von Esenbeck on Indian Laurinea and Acanthacem, by 3Ir. Bentham on the Labiatm,
Professor Meisner on the genus Polygonum, aml Von Martins on Restiacem. He was long in charge of the Government Gardens at Calcutta, having succeeded Dr. Roxburgh. He wrote on Indian Woods, in Bl. As. Trans., 1833, ii. 77; and besides editing a portion of the Flora Indica of Dr. Roxburgh, he commenced, in India, an illus trated work on Nepal Plants, Tentamen Florm Nepalensis, which was the' first specimen of litho graphy ever produced in India. Drs. Hooker and Thomson estimated his great collection at between 6500 and 7000 species.—Wight's Prod. i. p. 18. IVALLICHIA OBLONG1FOLIA, 'the Cob of the Lepcha, a palm which grows in Sikkim. It affords au admirable fodder for horses, who prefer it to any other green food to be had in those mountains.—Hooker, p. 143.