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PANAY, Capiz Province, Mount Salibongbong, Bur. Set. 85574 
Martelino & Edafio, June 19, 1919. In thickets and forests near 
the summit, altitude about 650 meters. 
This species resembles Alyxia blancoi Merr. but is easily 
distinguished by its longer peduncles and by its terete, not 
4-angled, branchlets; it differs from Alyxia lanceolata Merr. 
in its glabrous inflorescences. 
ALYXIA OBOVATIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, partibus junioribus pubescens, ramulis 
acute 4-angulatis; foliis verticillatis, crasse coriaceis, obovatis 
ad oblongo-obovatis, 4 ad 6 cm longis, apice late rotundatis, 
deorsum angustatis, basi cuneatis, margine valde recurvatis, 
nervis lateralibus obsoletis; floribus axillaribus, sessilibus vel 
subsessilibus, plerumque binis, calycis pubescens, corollae tubo 
circiter 1 cm longo. 
A scandent vine, the branchlets sharply 4-angled, the inter- 
nodes 2 to 4 cm long, the younger parts somewhat pubescent. 
Leaves verticillate, usually 4 at each node, thickly coriaceous, obo- 
vate to oblong-obovate, shining, 4 to 6 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, 
the apex broadly rounded and sometimes slightly retuse, nar- 
rowed below to the cuneate base, the margins strongly recurved, 
the midrib prominent, the lateral nerves obsolete, the mature 
leaves glabrous, the very young ones somewhat pubescent; pet- 
ioles about 5 to 7 mm long. Flowers white, axillary, usually in 
pairs, sessile or subsessile, the calyx pubescent, the lobes lanceo- 
late, acuminate, about 1.5 mm long. Corolla-tube glabrous, 
about 1 cm in length. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34492 Ramos & Pas- 
casio, April 25, 1919, in rather dry thickets along small streams 
at low altitudes at the iron deposit on the northeast coast. 
A species strongly characterized by its thickly coriaceous, 
obovate to oblong-obovate, rounded, nerveless leaves, and its very 
short, axillary, usually 2-flowered inflorescences. It is not closely 
allied to any previously described form. 
KIBATALIA G. Don 
(Kickxia Blume, non Dumortier) 
In 1827 Dumortier published the generic name Kickxia for 
a small group of scrophulariaceous plants which some sub- 
sequent botanists have placed in Linaria. This disposition of 
Dumortier’s genus is by no means universally accepted and some 
European and American botanists maintain Kickxia Dum. as 
a valid genus in spite of the fact that all current botanical 
works of a general nature and those on the African and Indo-Ma- 
