Ixora cuneifolia Roxb., Fl. Ind.

Turner, Ian M., 2022, FROM ACACIA TO ZIZIPHUS: PLANT NAMES COMMEMORATING THE BOTANIST WILLIAM ROXBURGH, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (1911), pp. 1-102 : 57-60

Ixora cuneifolia Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 390 (1820). – Type: [unpublished illustration] Icones

Roxburghianae 1785 (lectotype K, designated here). Figure 10 .

Ixora cuneifolia var. roxburghii Kurz, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengl, Pt 2, Nat. Hist. 46: 150 (1877). – Type: [Calcutta Botanic Garden] Anon. s.n. [ EIC 6140 B] (lectotype K-W [ K001123153 ], designated here).

Kurz’s var. roxburghii was based on Wallich specimens, so a collection from the Calcutta Botanic Gardens is here selected as lectotype. A Roxburgh drawing is designated as lectotype of Ixora cuneifolia Roxb.

Ixora roxburghii Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 286 (1891). – Ixora villosa Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 392 (1820). nom. illegit., non I. villosa (Vahl) Poir. (1813) . – Ixora balakrishnii Deb & Rout, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 89: 44 (1992), nom. illegit., superfl. – Type: [unpublished illustration] Icones Roxburghianae 2179 (lectotype K, designated by Turner, Ann. Bot. Fenn. 58: 206 [2021]).

Ixora roxburghii Kuntze is based on Ixora villosa Roxb. , an illegitimate later homonym.

Jagera javanica (Blume) Kalkman, Blumea 7: 470 (1953). – Garuga javanica Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. (17): 1165 (1826–1827). – Jagera speciosa Blume, Rumphia 3: 155 (1849), nom. illegit., superfl. – Type: Java, C.L. Blume s.n. (lectotype L [L0014301], designated here).

Sapindus serratus Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 284 (1832). – Jagera roxburghii Blume, Rumphia 3: 155 (1849), nom. illegit., superfl. – Jagera serrata (Roxb.) Radlk., Sitzungsber. Math. -Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. München 8: 303 (1878). – Type: W. Roxburgh s.n. (lectotype BR [BR0000005415595], designated here).

Jagera roxburghii Blume is a superfluous name for Sapindus serratus Roxb. A specimen in BR is designated as lectotype for Roxburgh’s name. Kalkman (1953) considered two sheets in L as one specimen and the type of Jagera speciosa . However, the sheets bear no annotations to indicate that they are one specimen, so one of them is here designated as lectotype.

Jasminum montanum Roth in Roemer & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 1: 80 (1817). – Jasminum arborescens var. montanum (Roth) C.B.Clarke in Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 3(9): 594 (1882). – Type: W. Roxburgh s.n. (neotype BM [ BM000997666 ], designated by Turner, Taxon 70: 397 [2021]).

Jasminum roxburghianum Wall. ex Edgew., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 20(1): 82 (1846). – Jasminum arborescens var. roxburghianum (Wall. ex Edgew.) Haines, Bot. Bihar Orissa 525 (1925). – Type : N.W. India, Batuwah near Sadhaura, 1844, M.P. Edgeworth s.n. (lectotype K [ K001129837 ], designated here).

Jasminum roxburghianum Wall. ex C.B.Clarke, Fl. Brit. India 3(9): 595 (1882). nom. illegit., non J. roxburghianum Wall. ex Edgew. (1846) . – Type : India, Malabar , Bababoodun Hills, Law s.n. (lectotype K [ K001129838 ], designated here).

It has been overlooked that Edgeworth was the first to validate Wallich’s nomen nudum Jasminum roxburghianum . While Edgeworth cited Wallich’s catalogue number, he also referred to his own collection. Here I select a specimen of the latter as lectotype for Jasminum roxburghianum . Similarly for Clarke’s later validation, I select a cited specimen annotated by Clarke.

Jatropha glandulifera Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 688 (1832). – Adenoropium roxburghii Kostel., Allg. Med. - Pharm. Fl. 5: 1750 (1836), nom. illegit., superfl. – Type: W. Roxburgh s.n. (lectotype BR [ BR0000013052072 ], designated by Chakrabarty, Ann. Pl. Sci. 8(10): 3634 [2019]).

Kosteletzky’s Adenoropium roxburghii is a superfluous renaming of Jatropha glandulifera Roxb.

Figures

Figure 10. The lectotype of Ixora cuneifolia Roxb. Icones Roxburghianae 1785 in the collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Reproduced with the permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.