10. Bejaria racemosa Vent., Descr. Pl. Nouv.: tab. 51. 1801. Lectotypus (designated by Clemants, 1995: 71): UNITED STATES. Florida: Michaux s.n. (G [G00342248]!; isolecto-: P [P02441846, P02441849]!, P-MICH [P00667179, P00667182, P00667183]!). Notes. – The name Bejaria racemosa was validated on the basis of a plant in Cels’s garden raised from seeds brought back by Bosc from a botanical garden in Charles-Town [Charleston, Boston], possibly the garden founded after 1786 by Michaux “ten miles from Charlestown” (Ramsay, 1858). Ventenat also mentioned in the protologue that Michaux discovered the plant in Florida. No cultivated specimen exists in Ventenat’s herbarium but a single specimen from Florida, i.e. the Michaux collection, is extant. This collection has been designated as the lectotype by Clemants (1995: 71). A collection from Cels’s garden exists in the G-DC herbarium [G00454403] and is here considered as original material. Duplicates of Michaux collections in P and P-MICH are considered as isolectotypes. Another collection in G-DC [G00454405] represents a cultivated plant from Malmaison but it seems that it was collected after the validation of the name in 1801 and is here not considered as original material. Michaux (1803) published the name B. paniculata Michx., [nom. illeg.] [non B. paniculata Cels ex Dum. Cours.], a homotypic synonym of B. racemosa based on the same gathering as Ventenat. Ventenat in Choix (1808: sub tab. 52) already considered these names as synonyms and wrote: “L’auteur de la Flore de l’Amérique Septentrionale [i.e. Michaux] a cru devoir substituer au nom spécifique de racemosa celui de paniculata.” [“The author of the Flore de l’Amérique Septentrionale [i.e. Michaux] felt that he had to substitute the specific name racemosa with paniculata.”]

Published as part of Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, pp. 87-132 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a8, http://zenodo.org/record/5721919