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To honour British (b. Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales) botanist Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823–1913 (d. Broadstone, Dorset, England), naturalist, biologist, explorer and zoologist, co-discoverer of the theory of evolution, plant collector with Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892) in South America and in the Malay Archipelago (Indonesia and Malaysia), travelled with Bates on the Amazon during 1848–1850, 1856: Gudong (Nov. 28), Jahi, Tabokan, Borotoi, Senankan, Sénna, Sarawak, Peninjauh (with Sir James Brooke (1803–1868) and Spenser St John, Secretary of Sir J. Brooke), 1872 Fellow of the Linnean Society, 1893 elected to the Royal Society, among his most valuable writings are The Malay Archipelago. New York 1869, Palm trees of the Amazon and their uses. London 1853, My Life A Record of Events and Opinions. London 1905, ‘On the River Negro.’ Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. XXIII 212–217. 1853 and Darwinism an exposition of the theory of selection with some of its applications. London and New York 1889; see H.W. Bates, The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the Equator, during eleven years of travel. London 1863 and Journ. Bot. 52, 1914, p. 15–18. 1914, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 126. sess., 1914, p. 63–65. 1914, Leonard Huxley, Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. London 1918, E.M. Tucker, Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass. 1917–1933, Andrew Thomas Gage, A History of the Linnean Society of London. London 1938, Joseph Ewan, Rocky Mountain Naturalists. University of Denver Press 1950, B. Glass et al., eds., Forerunners of Darwin: 1745–1859. Baltimore 1959, John H. Barnhart, Biographical notes upon botanists. 3: 453. 1965, Mea Allan, The Hookers of Kew. London 1967, Alexander B. Adams, Eternal Quest. The Story of the Great Naturalists. New York 1969, S. Lenley et al., Catalog of the manuscript and archival collections and index to the correspondence of John Torrey. Library of the New York Botanical Garden. 426. 1973, Michael J. Balick, ‘Wallace, Spruce and Palm Trees of the Amazon: An Historical Perspective.’ Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 263–269. September 1980, H. Lewis MCkinney, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Editor-in-chief Charles Coulston Gillispie.) 14: 133–140. New York 1981, F.A. Stafleu and R.S. Cowan, Taxonomic Literature. 7: 33–36. 1988, R. Zander, F. Encke, G. Buchheim and S. Seybold, Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. 14. Aufl. Stuttgart 1993, [Don Conner Fine Books & Jeff Weber Rare Books], Catalogue 41: Charles Darwin and his circle including Alfred Russel Wallace, Thomas Huxley and Charles Lyell. Mostly from the Library of Eric T. Pengelley. Sacramento and Glendale, California 1996, [Maggs Bros Ltd], Catalogue 1260: Huxley. London 1998, Elodie Alapetite, William J. Baker and Sophie Nadot, ‘Evolution of stamen number in Ptychospermatinae (Arecaceae): Insights from a new molecular phylogeny of the subtribe.’ Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 76: 227–240. 2014, Jason R. Comer et al., ‘Resolving relationships within the palm subfamily Arecoideae (Arecaceae) using plastid sequences derived from next-generation sequencing.’ American Journal of Botany 102(6): 888–899. June 2015, Jason R. Comer et al., ‘Nuclear phylogenomics of the palm subfamily Arecoideae (Arecaceae).’ Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 97: 32–42. 2016, Jason R. Comer et al., ‘Data supporting the nuclear phylogenomics of the palm subfamily Arecoideae (Arecaceae).’ Data in Brief (Elsevier) 7: 532–536. June 2016.