 Given that Richard's name for the kadam tree is incorrect, the earliest name is William Roxburgh's 1824 "Nauclea cadamba".In 1984, Jean Marie Bosser created the new generic name "Neolamarckia", honouring Lamarck, for the Asian genus which matched Richard's description of his "Anthocephalus", transferring "Nauclea cadamba" as "Neolamarckia cadamba" (Roxb.