Forgotten types of Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) in The Central National Herbarium, Kolkata, India Author Albertson, Winston D. Author Wood, Hn. R. I. text Phytotaxa 2012 2012-02-03 43 49 60 http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.43.1.2 journal article 6115 10.11646/phytotaxa.43.1.2 f584e63f-9368-4547-926b-c2c76dfc599e 1179-3163 4894938 Strobilanthes mastersii T. Anderson (1867: 481) . Lectotype (designated here): INDIA . “ignota” [probably Arunachal Pradesh ], Simons s.n. (CAL0000019672!). Figure 4A . Strobilanthes scoriarum W.W. Smith (1918: 199) . Holotype : CHINA . Yunnan , G. Forrest 8862 (E!). Goldfussia scoriarum (W.W. Smith) Bremekamp (1944: 234) . Strobilanthes schweliensis W.W. Smith (1920: 224) . Holotype : CHINA . Yunnan , G. Forrest 16107 (E!). Diflugossa schweliensis (W.W. Smith) Hossain (1973: 406) . Strobilanthes aborensis Dunn (1920: 208) . Holotype : INDIA . Arunachal Pradesh , I. H. Burkill 35757 (K!, isotype CAL!). Anderson cited collections by Masters and Simons as types of Strobilanthes mastersii , At CAL there are three syntypes , all annotated by Anderson, two collected by Masters and one by Simons. This last is the best collection and the only one with well-developed leaves and so is here selected as the lectotype . Strobilanthes mastersii is most abundant in China being well-known from SE Tibet (Xixang) and Yunnan ( Hu et al, 2011 ) but the earliest collections are from India . Although no precise localities for this species are known from India , it is most likely to occur in Arunachal Pradesh near the border with Tibet.