Eugenia angustifolia Roxburgh (1832: 490) Jambosa polypetala Wallich (1840: 27) Eugenia polypetala (Wall.) Wight (1842: 8 Typifications and nomenclatural notes on Indian Myrtaceae Byng, James W. Wilson, Peter G. Snow, Neil Phytotaxa 2015 2015-06-23 217 2 101 116   27.  Syzygium polypetalum(Wall.) Merrill & L.M. Perry (1941: 125).   =   Eugenia angustifolia Roxburgh (1832: 490), nom. illeg., non Lamarck 1789. =   Jambosa polypetala Wallich (1840: 27). =   Eugenia polypetala(Wall.) Wight (1842: 8. t. 610). Type citation:—‘A small tree, a native of Chittagong, where it flowers in March and April. The fruit ripens in June and July’. Lectotype(designated here): Icones Roxburgh Number 2135(K!).  Distribution:— India[Arunchal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, West Bengal], Bangladeshand Myanmar. Notes:—Roxburgh’s name was illegitimate and Wallich’s  Jambosa polypetalais a validly published replacement name. Merrill and Perry (1941), amongst others, were unaware of this and cited Wightas the earliest publication. As a result, the authorship is sometimes given as ‘Wall. ex Wight’, but this is incorrect. Since Wallich’s name is a nomen novum, it automatically takes the typeof the replaced name, Roxburgh’s  Eugenia angustifolia( McNeill et al. 2012, Article 7.4), and is not typified by either of the Wallich Catalogue Numbers(3616 & 1830) cited by Merrill and Perry.