Prior lectotypifications of Danaea elliptica are rejected because they did not take into account the one adequate specimen cited by the author of the species. This specimen is chosen here as lectotype, which enables the name D. elliptica to continue to be used in its usual sense. J. E. Smith in Rees (1808), in his treatment of Danaea, included D. alata J. Smith, D. nodosa (L.) J. Smith, D. simplicifolia Rudge, and one new species, D. elliptica J. E. Smith in Rees. The latter three species are closely related, although D. simplicifolia is obviously different in having simple, rather than pinnate laminae. J. E. Smith was careful to distinguish his new species from the related species D. nodosa, as his descriptions and excerpts from his notes illustrate: 1. D. nodosa: "Stalk scarcely winged; leaflets linear-oblong, sessile, pointed,