Codia albicans Vieill. ex Pamp.

Fortune Hopkins, Helen C., 2005, Nomenclature and typification in the endemic genus Codia (Cunoniaceae) from New Caledonia, Adansonia (3) 27 (2), pp. 243-254 : 246-247

1. Codia albicans Vieill. ex Pamp.

Ann. Bot. Rome 2: 104 (1905). — Type (as given in protologue): “Ad montes prope Wagap [Vieillard, Herb. de la Nouvelle Calédonie, 1861-1867, n. 582s (B-B, C-I, D C)”. — Lectotype (here designated): in collibus circa Wagap, 1861-1867, Vieillard 582 ( G!; iso-, FI [photos!, G! [date “1868”, see belows, K! [2 sheetss, P! [4 sheetss; probable iso-, BM!, NY [images! barcode no. NY00356073 , P!; other sheets exist at L and MEL [fide HOOGLAND, card indexs).

PAMPANINI indicated that two of the type specimens were in the Barbey-Boissier herbarium (B-B) and the de Candolle herbarium (D C) at G. However , since these collections do not refer to Flora Orientalis nor to either DE CANDOLLE’ s Prodromus nor the Monographiae Phanerogamarum , they are now in the general herbarium at G (see http://www.cjb.unige.ch/). The sheet cited as C-I refers to the herbarium Centrale Italiano at FI which is also now incorporated into their general herbarium (see http://sciweb.nybg.org/ science2/ IndexHerbariorum. asp). Types of other species of Codia described by PAMPANINI are similarly in the general herbaria at G or FI.

The handwritten date “1868” on the sheet at G, originally from the DE CANDOLLE herbarium, is probably the date of receipt rather than the date of collection, and so it is not excluded from being an isolectotype. Although the sheets at BM and P lack a date of collection, I have not found any material of Vieillard 582 from Wagap dated 1855-1860, and the material closely matches that on the sheets with this number and locality dated 1861-1867. Another sheet of Vieillard 582 at P, labelled Wagap but without a date, is C. discolor and sheets from Kanala (both 1865-1860 and 1861-1867) are also C. discolor .

2. C o d i a a l b i f r o n s (Bro n g n. e x S c h i n z F Guillaumin) Baker f.

J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 45: 301 (1921); Guillaumin, Bull. Soc. bot. France 87: 254 (1941); Bull. Mus . natl Hist. nat. Paris (2) 14: 452 (1943), as “ albiflorus ”; Fl. anal. synopt. Nouvelle-Calédonie: 142 (1948), as “ albiflora”. — Basionym: Codia montana J.R.Forst. F G.Forst. var. albifrons Brongn. ex Schinz F Guillaumin, Bull. Mus. natl Hist. nat. Paris 26: 368 (27 May 1920); Schinz F Guillaumin in Sarasin F Roux, Nova Caledonia, Bot. 1: 150 (c. Dec. 1920). — Types (as given in protologue): “ Nouvelle-Calédonie, […s hautes montagnes ferrugineuses (Pancher 188, 200), sommet des montagnes au N.E. de la baie de Prony (Balansa 191)”. — Lectotype (here designated): hautes montagnes ferrugineuses, Pancher Mus . Néocal. 188 (P!; iso-, P!).

The name Codia albifrons was first written on a specimen by VIEILLARD, but was not published by him. The name C. montana var. albifrons was written on a specimen at P by BRONGNIART, but this was also not published. The epithet albifrons first appeared in print in May 1920, published with a Latin description by GUILLAUMIN who ascribed the name C. montana var. albifrons to “Brongn. ex Schinz F Guillaumin”. The authorship of that name should now be attributed as ascribed there (GREUTER et al. 2000: Art. 46.2, last sentence and example 7). Publication of C. montana var. albifrons by SCHINZ F GUILLAUMIN was in a work not received at Kew until December 1920, and it seems very probable that the date of its appearance was later than GUILLAUMIN’ s May 1920 publication of the name.

In 1921, E.G. BAKER took up VIEILLARD’ s original manuscript name, C. albifrons , ascribing it to him, apparently ignoring the fact that VIEILLARD had never published it and unaware of the publication of C. montana var. albifrons the previous year. Although BAKER did not refer to GUILLAUMIN, his ascription of the name to VIEILLARD may be taken as an indirect reference to GUILLAUMIN’ s validation of the varietal name (see GREUTER et al. 2000: Art. 32.1). Since Proposal 269 to amend the Code (BRUMMITT 2004) was accepted, it is clear that VIEILLARD’ s name should not appear in the author citation of C. albifrons .

Although GUILLAUMIN (1920) cited three numbers in the protologue, they appear to refer

to only two collections. The lectotype has three labels: one with “Herbier Pancher donné par M. Hennecart” printed on it, and the other two both have “ Mus . Néocal. 188” handwritten in a corner. The larger label has “200” in another corner, while in the smaller, “200” has been crossed out. The isolectotype mentions only the number 188. The syntype, Balansa 191, is conspecific .