Morus serrata Roxb.

Turner, Ian M., 2015, The botanical legacy of Thomas Hardwicke’s journey to Srinagar in 1796, European Journal of Taxonomy 108, pp. 1-25 : 21

Morus serrata Roxb.

Flora Indica 3: 596 (1832).

— Neotype (designated here): India, [Uttarakhand], Kumaon , s.dat., R. Blinkworth s.n. [EIC 6468A] (K-W!).

Zanthoxylum alatum

The Flora Indica description of this plant ( Roxburgh 1832b) makes direct reference to Hardwicke’s unnamed Zanthoxylum (as ‘Xanthoxylum’), of which there is a drawing in the Natural History Museum set (no. 39) and a similar pair in the British Library (Vol. XIV nos. 7 and 8). Roxburgh’s name, however, was cited by Wallich in his Numerical List, rendering it a superfluous, and illegitimate, renaming of Z. acanthopodium DC. Thus Roxburgh’s name becomes an illegitimate later homonym. Hartley (1966: 211) proposed Roxburgh icon 1916 as the lectotype of Z. alatum Roxb. but he did not state which set of drawings (Kew or Calcutta) he was referring to. I therefore clarify the issue by proposing the Kew copy below.