17,3 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVI 809 
base of the connectives broadly ovate, about 1 mm long. Disk 
obscurely toothed, 1 mm high. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34691 Ramos & Pas- 
casio, June 14, 1919, along streams at low altitudes at the iron 
deposit on the northeast coast. 
This species is at once distinguished from Kibatalia blancoi 
Merr., to which it is most closely allied, by its cylindric corolla- 
tubes which are not enlarged upward, and by its narrowly lan- 
ceolate corolla-lobes which do not exceed 4 mm in width. 
The hitherto described species of this genus are as follows: 
KIBATALIA AFRICANA (Benth.) comb. nov. 
Kickzia africana Benth. in Hook. Ic. III 3 (1877-79) 59, t. 1276. 
Tropical Africa, Kamerun, Preuss 1382! 
KIBATALIA ARBOREA (Blume) G. Don Gen. Syst. 2 (1837) 86. 
Hasseltia arborea Blume Bijdr. (1826) 1045. 
Kickxia arborea Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, 1 (1840) 846; Blume Rumphia 
4 (1848) 26, ¢. 179, f. 1. 
Kixia arborea A. DC. Prodr. 8 (1844) 408. 
Java, cult. Hort. Bogor. IV-A-80!, IV-A-80a!, XI-B-186! 
KIBATALIA BLANCO! (Rolfe) comb. nov. 
Kickxia blancoi Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 313. 
Kickxia arborea F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 132; Naves in Blanco 
Fl. Filip. ed. 3 (1877-83) t. 428 bis, non Blume. 
Kickxia merrittii Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 315. 
Kickxia macgregorii Elm. Leafi. Philip. Bot. 4 (1912) 1457. 
A Philippine species widely distributed from northern Luzon 
southward to Guimaras and Negros, represented by For. Bur. 
26678 Penas, 25863 Adduru, 25465 Paraiso, 20964 Villamil, 25726 
Mabesa, 7649 Curran & Merritt, 11488 Merritt, 21545 Tamesis, 
15113 Tabat, Elmer 12373, Wenzel 320. 
KIBATALIA BORNEENSIS (Stapf) comb. nov. 
Kickzia borneensis Stapf in Hook. Ie. IV 7 (1901) ¢. 2693. 
Borneo. 
KIBATALIA ELASTICA (Preuss) comb. nov. 
Kickzxia elastica Preuss in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 2 (1899) 353. 
Tropical Africa, Kamerun, Zenker 188! 
KIBATALIA LATIFOLIA (Stapf) comb. nov. 
Kickwxia latifolia Stapf in Kew Bull. (1898) 307. 
Tropical Africa. 
KIBATALIA SCHEFFERI (K. Schum.) comb. nov. 
Kickwia schefferi K. Schum. in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 3 (1900) 81. 
German East Africa, herb. Amani 416! 
