Pongamia sericea Vent., Jard. Malmaison

Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, Candollea 72 (1), pp. 87-132 : 114

64. Pongamia sericea Vent., Jard. Malmaison 1: sub tab. 28. 1803.

Ξ Millettia sericea (Vent.) Benth.

Lectotypus (designated here): INDONESIA. Java: sine loc., IX.1794 - V.1796, Lahaie 2189 ( P [ P02753433 ]!; isolecto-: P [ P02753436 ]!).

Notes. – Ventenat in Jardin de Malmaison (1803: tab. 28) described a new genus Pongamia Vent. based on the illeg. name P. glabra Vent. The generic name Pongamia is a rejected name [nom. rejic.] against Millettia Wight & Arn. , a conserved name [nom. cons.] published by Wight & Arnott in 1834. In the first volume of Jardin de Malmaison, Ventenat also published two further species as addenda: P. grandiflora Vent. and P. sericea Vent. Both species were based on collections made by Felix de Lahaie (1767-1829), while he served as gardener on the Entrecasteaux Expedition. Lahaie’s herbarium was bought by the MNHN in 1879 but some collections are also part of Ventenat’s herbarium ( Guillaumin, 1910). Among the material in the Ventenat herbarium no specimens of Pongamia are extant and therefore the name P. sericea had to be lectotypified on collections kept in P. The name Pongamia grandiflora , currently accepted as Derris elliptica (Wall.) Benth. , has been implicitly lectotypified by Adema (2000: 420) with a specimen in the P-JU herbarium (n° 15666).