Eugenia montana Wight (1846: 3 Syzygium montanum Gamble (1919: 479) Syzygium gadgilii M.R. Almeida (1998: 273) Typifications and nomenclatural notes on Indian Myrtaceae Byng, James W. Wilson, Peter G. Snow, Neil Phytotaxa 2015 2015-06-23 217 2 101 116   34.  Syzygium tamilnadensisRathakrishnan & Chithrain Chithra (1983: 158).   =   Eugenia montana Wight (1846: 3. t. 1060), nom. illeg., non Aublet 1775. =   Syzygium montanum Gamble (1919: 479), nom. illeg., non Thwaites 1859. =   Syzygium gadgiliiM.R. Almeida (1998: 273), nom. superfl. Lectotype(designated here):— INDIA. ‘Neilgherries, not infrequent in woods’ Herb. Wight 1042(K! [barcode K000821339]).  Distribution:— India[ Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu]; 1400‒1700 m. Notes:— Wight (1846)described and illustrated  Eugenia montana, a later homonym and thus an illegitimate name. Gamble (1919)later transferred the taxon to  Syzygium, where it is treated as a new name ( McNeill et al. 2012, article 58.1). Since  S. montanumGambleis also a later homonym, Rathakrishnan & Chithra ( Chithra 1983) proposed a new name for the taxon as  Syzygium tamilnadensisRathakrishnan & Chithra. Govaerts ( WCSP 2015)placed  S. tamilnadensisas a synonym of  S. grande(Wight) Walpers, but it is clearly a distinct taxon based on its quadrangular (vs. terete) stems, fused (vs. free) petals and prominent venation below (vs. both sides).   Severalspecimens, all said to be from the Neilgherry Hills, might be considered original material. Twoare from Wight’sherbarium and labelled as ‘ Peninsula Indiae Orientalis No.1042’ but one of these, barcode K000821340, is dated ‘  May 1857’, well after the publication date. We have chosen the other specimen from Wight’s herbarium, barcode K000821339, as lectotype. Two additional specimensat Kewcollected from the Neilgherries, barcodes K000821337and K000821338, are mistakenly databased as originating from Sri Lankabecause they are attributed to ‘ Gardner’(i.e. George Gardner, superintendent of the botanic garden at Peradeniya). Oneof these has the annotation ‘ Gardner1847’ but this is a later addition; we interpret this as the date it was either despatched or received and do not rule it out as a syntype. 1857-05 K Several & Neilgherry Hills & Two & Wight's & Peninsula Indiae Orientalis No. Sri Lanka Gardner Two One 11 112 K000821340, K000821339, K000821337, K000821338 2 lectotype