Summary
Seven names in the genus Memecylon L.: M. amplexicaule Roxb. var. malabarica C. B. Clarke, M. andamanicum King, M. gracile Bedd., M. lushingtonii Gamble, M. madgolense Gamble, M. pulchrum Kurz and M. terminale Dalzell are lectotypified here as a part of a revisionary study of the genus in India.
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Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the Director, Botanical Survey of India for providing necessary facilities. They are indebted to Dr V. Sampath Kumar, former IBLO at Kew, BSI for sending the digital images of type specimens and some of the protologues. The first author wishes to thank the directors/curators of the following herbaria worldwide: A, B, BM, BO, BR, CGE, E, FI, G, GH, GZU, H, HAL, K, L, LE, M, NY, PH, SING, SYD, U, for kindly making the type images of the species concerned accessible for study and furnishing relevant information on the location of type specimens. The authors also immensely benefitted from the annotations made on the type sheets by Dr G. S. Giri, emeritus scientist, BSI, which helped in locating some of the important materials at CAL. Dr Subir Bandyopadhyay, Scientist, BSI also contributed his valuable opinion at various stages and Dr G. G. Maiti, emeritus Professor, Kalyani University helped to improve the manuscript. Hearty thanks are extended to Sri Gopal Krishna, staff, BSI for his generous help and support. The authors appreciate the corrections and suggestions of the referees and Dr D. Simpson, Editor in Chief, Kew Bulletin, who contributed much to the improvement of this manuscript.
