Letter received by Banks from Nathaniel Wallich, 3 September 1818 (Series 20.76) - No. 0003

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in having smaller yellowish flowers with narrower [indeciplerable] segments, but as in that species, solitary large & nodding; in [indeciplerable] short. ....color and equidistant leaves the 5 to 7 uppermost, or floral ones, being verticilated. A most singular and very doubtful circumstance on my plant is, that my specimens want bulbs - perhaps actually they have none - their root being slender with villous fibres!! so that the species might be considered as intermediate between Lilium and Uncularis! But its [indecipherable] is that of the former. As sure and certain as I shall transmit Litchee - seedlings in such a manner as to exclude the probability of a final failure, so sure shall I have the happiness also to present roots & seeds of this Lily to you my illustrious and venerated  Patron & Benefactor.  I shall exert myself to the utmost degree to realise your wishes relative to the Litchee - plants, and I am bold enough to encourage myself with anticipating the most perfect success.  But on this subject I will, with your permission, have the honor of addressing you on another occasion.

I solicit your forgiveness for troubling you with the following list of letters which I have taken the liberty to address you since January last, all of them referring, at least in some degree, to dispatches of growing plants, seeds & specimens.  The unfortunate loss of the Atlas, on which I had several letters, makes me the more anxious of specifying the following dates.
January 6th - Carnatic
    ----   10th - Cornwall
    -----  15th - Northumbrian
   ------ 24th - Thalia
   ------ 25  -   Thalia
 January 27 - Thalia
February 16 - Metcalf
     ------   20 - Harmony
March  -- 12 - Metcalf
     -----     14 - Metcalf