Stemona Lour., Fl. Cochinch.

Turner, Ian M., 2022, FROM ACACIA TO ZIZIPHUS: PLANT NAMES COMMEMORATING THE BOTANIST WILLIAM ROXBURGH, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (1911), pp. 1-102 : 88-89

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Stemona Lour., Fl. Cochinch. View in CoL 2: 404 (1790). – Type: Stemona tuberosa Lour.

Roxburghia Roxb., Pl. Coromandel 1(2): 29, t. 32 (1795). – Type: Roxburghia gloriosoides Roxb.

Although it would seem that Roxburgh dedicated a genus to himself, Sir James Edward Smith (1815) stoutly defended Roxburgh on this point:

Roxburghia received that name, at the suggestion of the right honourable Sir Joseph Banks, from the pen of the late Mr. Dryander, in just commemoration of the discoverer of this genus, Dr William Roxburgh, F.L.S., member of the Asiatic Society. … From the remote situation of the author, many genera and species were left by him for the determination of his learned editor, to whom all the sources of literary information in Europe were open. But as the name of this editor is entirely kept out of sight, a French writer, De Theis,

has been led into the mistake of charging Dr Roxburgh with the unexampled arrogance of dedicating a genus to his own honour. No man can be further, than our candid and unassuming friend, from such presumption, and we feel it a duty to wipe away the unmerited reproach.

Stephania japonica var. timoriensis (DC.) Forman, Kew Bull. View in CoL 11: 55 (1956). – Cocculus japonicus var. timoriensis DC., Prodr. View in CoL 1: 96 (1824). – Type: Anon. s.n. (lectotype G-DC [ IDC800 LM-48/11], designated here).

Cocculus roxburghianus DC., Syst. Nat. View in CoL 1: 516 (1817). – Menispermum roxburghianum (DC.) Spreng., Syst. Veg. , ed. 16, 2: 155 (1825), as ‘Roxburghii’. – Stephania roxburghiana (DC.) Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. View in CoL 3, 18: 14 (1866). – Type: Anon. s.n. (lectotype G-DC [G00201616], designated here).

Types for Cocculus roxburghianus DC. View in CoL and Cocculus japonicus var. timoriensis DC. View in CoL are here designated from material in the Prodromus Herbarium (G-DC). Sterculia roxburghiana Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. View in CoL 3: 39, t. 262 (1832). – Southwellia roxburghiana (Wall.) Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. View in CoL 14: 402 (1847). – Clompanus roxburghiana (Wall.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 78 (1891), as ‘roxburghii’. – Type: Jentya Mountains, iii 1829, Anon. 132 [EIC 1124.1] (lectotype K-W [K001112146], designated here; possible isolectotypes G [G000358628, G000358629]).