wightianus,-a,-um from Wight; named after Robert Wight (1796-1872), physician, who left for Madras in 1819 as medical officer of the British army. From 1826-28 he functionated as conservator of the botanical garden at Madras which was closed in the last year, in which function he gathered large plantcollections. In 1836 he left the military service and was charged with the superintendence of the cotton-, tobacco-and other cropp culture. He repatriated in 1853. He wrote some works on the flora of British India, one of them (Prodomus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis) together with G.A. Walker Arnott (see ...).