57. Phylica oleifolia Vent., Jard. Malmaison 1: sub tab. 57. 1804.

Neotypus (designated here): [SOUTH AFRICA]: “ Hort. Reg. Paris ”, Anon . s.n. (P-JU n° 16184 [P00667206] !) (Fig. 10).

Notes. – No type material has been located for Phylica oleifolia . A specimen in the P-JU herbarium bears in Jussieu’s handwriting: “ Phylica oleifolia Ventn. Mss. ”. This cultivated collection from the “Jardin du Roi” [ex Hort. Reg. Paris] is dated 1787. This garden is now known as the “Jardin des Plantes”. Serge Haemmerli (Z) currently undertakes a revision of the genus Phylica L. and considers Phylica oleifolia as a good species (Haemmerli, pers. comm.). The collection is here designated as neotype because it probably originates from the cultivated plant that Ventenat described in 1804.