Smithia blanda Wallich ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 221)

Singh, Rajeev Kumar, 2016, Lectotypifications of some Smithia (Fabaceae) occurring in India, Phytotaxa 255 (1), pp. 1-20 : 3

2. Smithia blanda Wallich ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 221) .

Type citation: — “Wall.! L. n. 5669”

Lectotype (designated here): — BANGLADESH. Mont. Sillet (Sylhet Mountains), 1823, Wallich cat. n. 5669 (K001121661!).

Residual syntypes: — BANGLADESH.Mont.Sillet(Sylhet Mountains), s.d., Wallich cat.n.5669 ( BM 000958974!, BR 0000005174515!, CAL 0000012741!, E00174479!, P02297843! and S13-12434!).

Smithia paniculata Arnott (1836: 330) .

Type citation: — “Colonel Walker ”, “In Ceylani monte,, Neueri-Ellia,, ad scaturigines alt. 1000 hexap.”

Lectotype (designated here): — Sri Lanka, Neure Ellia , 6000 feet, s.d., Walker s.n. (E00301237!).

Residual syntypes: — Sri Lanka, s.d., Walker 174 (E00301236!) ; s.d., Walker 171 (E00301235!); s.d., Walker s.n. (K000827993!); s.d., Walker 135 (K000827992!); 6000 feet, s.d., Walker 135 (K000827991!).

Smithia racemosa B. Heyne ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 221) .

Type citation: — “ Heyne! in Wall.! L. n. 5670 ”

Lectotype (designated here): — Without locality, s.d., Wallich cat. n. 5670 (K001121662!); isolectotypes ( CAL0000012740 ! and K000827998!).

Distribution: — Bangladesh, China, Laos, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India (Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal).

Notes: — Wight & Arnott (1834), while describing Smithia blanda , mentioned only one gathering Wallich cat. n. 5669 as type, but no specific herbarium sheet was designated as holotype. Seven specimens of Wallich cat. n. 5669 were traced (BM000958974, BR0000005174515, CAL0000012741, E00174479, K001121661, P02297843 and S13- 12434). The specimen housed at K (K001121661), is better preserved and more complete than the others, hence is here designated as the lectotype as it agrees well with the protologue.

Smithia paniculata was described by Arnott (1836) based on the specimens collected by Colonel Walker from Sri Lanka, but no specific herbarium sheet was designated as holotype. Six specimens of Walker collected from Sri Lanka were traced, three each at E (E00301235, E00301236 and E00301237) and K (K000827991, K000827992 and K000827993). The three specimens at E have been considered here to choose the lectotype specimen for this name because they belong to the herbarium of Walker & Arnott. The best one, E00301237, is better preserved and more complete than the other two specimens and also locality ‘on Neure Ellia’ is written on this sheet as mentioned in the protologue by Arnott, hence is here designated as the lectotype as it agrees well with the protologue. The three specimens at K are also original materials (isosyntypes) according to Art. 9.3(c) of Melbourne Code ( McNeill et al. 2012).

In the protologue of Smithia racemosa, Wight & Arnott (1834) mentioned only one gathering Wallich cat. n. 5670 as type, but no specific herbarium sheet was designated as holotype. Three specimens of Wallich cat. n. 5670 were traced (CAL0000012740, K000827998 and K001121662). Of these, the best one, K001121662, is designated here as the lectotype as it agrees well with the protologue.