Garcinia celebica Linnaeus (1754: 7)

Turner, I. M., 2011, The contribution of Sir William Brooke O’Shaughnessy (1809 - 1889) to plant taxonomy, Phytotaxa 15, pp. 57-63 : 61

Garcinia celebica Linnaeus (1754: 7) .

Brindonia celebica (L.) Thouars in Cuvier (1806: 341) . Garcinia triflora Stokes (1812: 12) , nom. superfl. Oxycarpus celebica (L.) Poiret (1816: 258) . Stalagmitis celebica (L.) Don (1831: 621). Lectotype (designated by Merrill 1917): Herb. Amb. 1 (1741) 134, t. 44.

Oxycarpus indica auct. non (Thouars) Desr.: Hamilton (1826: 346) . Voucher : INDIA. Calcutta , Honourable East India Company’s Botanical Garden, Anonymous s.n., 30 November 1814 ([EIC 4852B] ex Herb. Hamilton (K-W); 1118 (E)).

Garcinia cornea auct . non L: Roxb. (1832: 629). Voucher: INDIA. s. loc., Anonymous s.n., s. dat. ([EIC 4852A] ex Herb. Roxburgh (K-W)).

Garcinia pictoria was not published by Buchanan-Hamilton and its authorship is correctly referred to Roxburgh. There are some obvious differences between Roxburgh’s description of G. pictoria and Buchanan- Hamilton’s account of Oxycarpus indica . Most notably Roxburgh states that G. pictoria is only known from the highest parts of Wynaad District (in what is now the state of Kerala in south-west India) and attempts to bring it in to cultivation in the lowlands have repeatedly failed. There are also Roxburgh icons [available online at: http://apps.kew.org/floraindica/home.do] of Garcinia cornea [1446] and G. pictoria [2279] that show them to be different. The Garcinia from the Calcutta garden is not G. pictoria as published by Roxburgh. Garcinia pictoria Roxb. is generally considered a synonym of Garcinia morella (Gaertn.) Desr. , though Maheshwari (1964) in a revision of Indian Garcinia kept it separate. There is a G. pictoria specimen in the herbarium of the Natural History Museum (BM), annotated ‘Flowers of the Wynaad Gamboge tree from Mr Dyer’, which is suitable as a lectotype for the species.