Stevensonia grandifola Wunean, Cat. Roy. Bot. 
Gard. Mauritius (1868), 2omen. 
Stephensonia grandifola Hort. Veitch apud Proce. 
Roy. Hort. Soe. Lond. 4 (1864) 134, nomen. 
Phoenicophorium Sechellarum H. Wendland in II. 
Hort. 12 (Feb. 1865) Mise. 5 and (May 1865) t. 433. 
Stevensonia Sechellarum Hort. apud Van Houtte 
in Fl. des Serres 15 (May 20, 1865) t. 1595-1596, 
in synon. 
Astrocaryum pictum Hort. apud Balfour f. in Baker 
F]. Mauritius (1877) 388, a synon. 
Stevensonia Borsigiana L. H. Bailey, Gentes Herb. 
2 (1980) 192. 
Poinciana pulcherrima L. var. flava (Hort. 
apud L. H. Bail. & Rehd.) Hubbard & Rehder, comb. 
nNOv. 
Caesalpinia pulcherrima Sw. var. flava Hort. apud 
L. H. Bailey & Rehder in L. H. Bailey, Cycl. Am. 
Hort. 1 (1900) 206. 
The combination for this horticultural variety has 
never been made under Poinciana. 
SALACCA Reinwardt in Syll. Ratisb. 2 (1825) 3. 
Zalacca’ Rumphius, Herb. Amb. 5 (1747) 118, t. 
57, fig. 2— Reinwardt apud Blume in Roemer & 
Schultes, Syst. Nat. 7, pt. 2 (1880) 1334. 
Salakka Reinwardt apud Blume, Cat. Gew. Bui- 
tenz. (1828) 112, nomen. 
The oldest valid post-Linnean spelling of the generic 
name is Salacca of Reinwardt, and from the standpoint 
of Latin it is also more correct than Zalacca. 
The species involved is: 
Salacca edulis Reinwardt in Syll. Ratisb. 2 
(1825) 3. 
Calamus Zalacca Gaertner, De Fruct. et Sem. PI. 
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