Eugenia uniflora Linnaeus (1753: 470) .

Lectotype (designated by McVaugh 1956):—“Illustration” Nov. Pl. Gen. 226, t. 108. (Micheli 1729).

= Eugenia subcordata Wight & Arnott (1834: 331) . Eugenia uniflora Linnaeus var. subcordata (Wight & Arnott) Duthie (1879: 505) .

Type citation in protologue:—“ Wight!cat. n. 1077”.

Lectotype (designated here):— INDIA. Peninsular India: Without locality, s.d., R. Wight 1075 (K000821522 [digital image!]; isolectotype E00174631 [digital image!]).

= Eugenia zeylanica Willdenow (1799: 963) .

Holotype: SRI LANKA. Without locality, s.d., C.P. Thunberg s.n. (B-W09505-010 [digital image!]).

Notes:—The specimen K000821522 is well preserved, has mature leaves, well developed flowers and therefore selected here as the lectotype for the name Eugenia subcordata Wight, as it agrees well with the protologue. Govaerts et al. (2008) and WCSP (2023) treated E. subcordata as an accepted species, but in Indian floras (Chithra 1983, Rathakrishnan 2016, 2020, Shareef & Kumar 2020) it is treated as a synonym of E. uniflora . After study of the description and type specimens of E. subcordata, Icouldn’t find any significant differences from E. uniflora . All the characters of E. subcordata given in the protologue lie within the range of E. uniflora .