Melicope grisea (Planchon) T.G. Hartley (2001: 257) var. grisea

Ohi-Toma, Tetsuo, Watanabe-Toma, Kana & Murata, Jin, 2015, Typification of Angiospermae described from the Bonin Islands 2: Archichlamydeae, Phytotaxa 227 (1), pp. 35-44 : 39-40

Melicope grisea (Planchon) T.G. Hartley (2001: 257) var. grisea

≡ Boninia grisea Planchon in Triana & Planchon (1872: 310)

Type:— JAPAN. Bonin, s.coll. 56, (holotype, K [ K 000717467]!, digital image).

= Boninia glabra Planchon f. macrophylla Nakai (1922: 123)

Type (lectotype, designated here):— JAPAN. Bonin: Naka-iwoto, 23 June 1922, T. Nakai s.n. ( TI [02480]!).

Additional specimens examined:— JAPAN. Bonin : Naka-iwoto, 23 June 1920, T. Nakai s.n. ( TI [02481]!) ; Bonin : Hahajima, Kitamura, 19 June 1920, T. Nakai s.n. ( TI [02339]!, TI [02340]!, TI [02341]!) ; Bonin : Hahajima, 19 June 1920, T. Nakai s.n. ( TI [02342]!) ; Bonin : Hahajima, 15 July 1921, T. Nakai s.n. ( TI [02332]!, TI [02333]!, TI [02334]!, TI [02335]!, TI [02336]!, TI [02337]!) ; Bonin : Hahajima, 16 July 1921, T. Nakai s.n. ( TI [02338]!) ; Bonin : Kita-iwoto, 21 June 1920, T. Nakai s.n. ( TI [02477]!, TI [02478]!, TI [02479]!) .

Distribution:— Japan (endemic to the Bonin Islands).

Notes:—In the protologue of Boninia glabra f. macrophylla, Nakai (1922) indicated three localities: “Hab. Bonin: in insula Naka-iwoto ubi haec forma tantum crescit sat vulgaris. (T. Nakai), in insula Hahajima et insula Kita-iwoto cum typica mixta sed potius rara (T. Nakai).” Considering that the protologue was published in November 1922, a total of 16 sheets in TI that were collected by T. Nakai can be regarded as the original material: two specimens from Naka-iwoto (T. Nakai s.n., 23 June 1922 and T. Nakai s.n., 23 June 1920), three duplicates from Kitamura of Hahajima (T. Nakai s.n., 19 June 1920), eight sheets of three different collections from Hahajima (one of T. Nakai s.n., 19 June 1920, six of T. Nakai s.n., 15 July 1921, and one of T. Nakai s.n., 16 July 1921), and three duplicates from Kita-iwoto (T. Nakai s.n., 21 June 1920). Of them, the first two specimens from Naka-iwoto had “var. macrophylla Nakai ” written on the label in Nakai’s handwriting. In addition, on the label of one (TI [02481]) of the two, someone drew a strikethrough on the species epithet “ glabra ” and “var. macrophylla Nakai ” and additionally wrote the name “ grisea .” We designated the other sheet without a strikethrough (TI [02480]) as the lectotype.

Melicope grisea (Planchon) T.G.Hartley var. crassifolia (Nakai) Yonekura (2005: 326)

≡ Boninia glabra Planchon var. crassifolia Nakai (1922: 124)

≡ B. crassifolia Nakai (1928: 5) and Nakai (1930b: 257), nom. nud.

≡ B. grisea Planchon var. crassifolia (Nakai) T. Yamazaki (1989: 276) , nom. nud.

≡ B. grisea Planchon var. crassifolia (Nakai) T.Yamaz. ex H. Ohba (1999: 34)

Type (lectotype, designated here):— JAPAN. Bonin: Anijima (in Japanese), 13 July 1922, T. Nakai s.n. ( TI [02446]!).

Additional specimens examined:— JAPAN. Bonin : Anijima, 3 July 1921, T. Nakai s.n. (syntype, TI [02430]!) ; Bonin : Anijima (in Japanese), 13 July 1922, T. Nakai s.n. (syntype, TI [02445]!) .

Distribution:— Japan (endemic to Anijima and Chichijima in the Bonin Islands).

Notes:—In the protologue of Boninia glabra var. crassifolia, Nakai (1922) indicated “Hab. Bonin: in silvis Anijima ubi tantum tres inveni (T. Nakai),” which means that he collected plants at only three places on Anijima Island. We regarded Nakai’s three specimens in TI, which were collected from Anijima before publication of the protologue (Nov. 1922), as the original material: the first with Nakai’s handwriting of “ Boninia crassifolia Nakai ” (T. Nakai s.n., 3 July 1921), the second with his handwriting of “ Boninia glabra Planchon var. crassifolia Nakai ” (T. Nakai s.n., 13 July 1922), and the last with his handwriting giving both scientific names (T. Nakai s.n., 13 July 1922). Considering his comment in the protologue, it is thought that the last two specimens collected on the same day came from different plants. Here, we designated the last specimen (TI [02446]), on which were written the names of both the rank of the species and the variety on the label in Nakai’s handwriting, as the lectotype.