FROM ACACIA TO ZIZIPHUS: PLANT NAMES COMMEMORATING THE BOTANIST WILLIAM ROXBURGH Author Turner, Ian M. text Edinburgh Journal of Botany 2022 2022-12-14 79 1911 1 102 http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2022.1911 journal article 10.24823/EJB.2022.1911 1747-0036 13273208 Spiraea cantoniensis Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 1: 322 (1790). – Type: J. de Loureiro s.n. ( lectotype P [P00150875], designated by Merrill, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 24: 177 [1935]). Spiraea corymbosa Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 512 (1832) , nom. illegit., non S. corymbosa Raf. (1814) . – Spiraea roxburghiana Wall., Rep. Calcutta Bot. Gard. to G.A. Bushby 29 (1840). – Type: W. Roxburgh s.n. ( lectotype B-W [B -W 09801 -01 0], designated here). Rafinesque used the name Spiraea corymbosa before Roxburgh. Therefore, Wallich renamed Roxburgh’s plant Spiraea roxburghiana . A Roxburgh specimen in the Willdenow Herbarium is selected here as lectotype . Sporobolus coromandelianus (Retz.) Kunth, Révis. Gramin. 1: 68 (1829). – Agrostis coromendeliana Retz., Observ. Bot. 4: 19 (1786) . – Type: J.G. Koenig s.n. ( lectotype LD [ LD1215257 ], designated by Fischer, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1932: 73 [1932]). Vilfa roxburghiana Nees ex Wight, Cat. Ind. Pl. 102 sub 1742 & 1743 (1834). – Type : Herb. R. Wight . Prop. 1742 ( lectotype K [ K000245155 ], designated here, restricting choice to the culm bearing two inflorescences mounted on the bottom centre of the sheet with a slip cut from Wight’s Catalogue for no. 1742 stuck over the base). Baaijens & Veldkamp (1991) noted that Vilfa roxburghiana was first validated in Wight’s Catalogue. A specimen from Wight’s herbarium, probably originally from Rottler, is selected here as lectotype .