Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part X) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 928 930 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Ximenia aegyptiaca Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1194. 1753 . "Habitat in Aegypto." RCN: 2690. Lectotype (Basak in Thothrathi in Fasc. Fl. India 4: 20. 1980; Sands in Kew Bull. 56: 51, 55. 2001): [icon] " Agihalid " in Alpino, De Plantis Aegypti : 38, 39, excl. fr. 1640. - Epitype (Sands in Kew Bull. 56: 51. 2001): Tanzania. Tanga Prov., Mombe Forest reserve, 29 Nov 1962, Semsei 3580 (K). Current name: Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Delile ( Zygophyllaceae / Balanitaceae ). Note: Sands restricted Basak's earlier type choice by excluding the fruits depicted by Alpino, and also designated an epitype .