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KIBATALIA WIGMANI Koord. in Meded. Lands Plantent. 19 (1898) 521. 
Celebes, Koorders 16045! 
KIBATALIA ZENKERI (K. Schum.) comb. nov. 
Kickxia zenkeri K. Schum. in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 3 (1900) 81. 
Tropical Africa. 
PARSONSIA R. Brown 
PARSONSIA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, partibus junioribus cinereo-pubescens ; foliis 
oppositis, subcoriaceis, oblongo-ellipticis ad oblongo-ovatis, 8 ad 
13 cm longis, basi leviter acuminatis, apice tenuiter acute acu- 
minatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, distinctis; inflorescentiis ter- 
minalibus, anguste paniculatis, 10 ad 12 cm longis, floribus 
umbellatim dispositis, extus pubescens, corollae tubo 5 mm longo, 
filamentis villosis, haud contortis. 
A woody vine, the young branchlets and inflorescences spar- 
ingly cinereous-pubescent, the branchlets terete, smooth, dark 
reddish-brown when dry. Leaves subcoriaceous, oblong-elliptic 
to oblong-ovate, 8 to 13 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, dark olivaceous 
when dry, the base usually somewhat acuminate, apex sharply 
and slenderly acuminate; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of 
the midrib, distinct, the reticulations lax; petioles 1 to 2 cm long. 
Inflorescences terminal, paniculate, peduncled, 10 to 12 cm long, 
more or less pubescent, the flowers subumbellately arranged at 
the tips of the primary branches, the lower branches 2 cm long 
or less. Flowers white, their pedicels about 5mm long. Calyx- 
lobes obtuse or rounded, 2 to 2.5 mm long. Corolla-tube about 
5 mm long and 3 mm in diameter, somewhat angled, glabrous 
below, pubescent above, the lobes oblong, 4 mm in length. Disk- 
lobes broadly ovate, rounded, about 0.6 mm long. Anthers nar- 
rowly lanceolate, 3.5 mm long, the filaments villous, not twisted. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34585 Ramos & Pas- 
casio, April 25, 1919, at the iron deposit on the northeast coast 
along streams at an altitude of about 500 meters. 
The distinguishing characters of the present species are its 
narrowly paniculate inflorescences and its slenderly acuminate, 
opposite leaves. 
ASCLEPIADACEAE 
HOYA R. Brown 
HOYA CARDIOPHYLLA sp. nov. § Fuhoya. 
Planta epiphytica, ramulis leviter pilosis, glabriscentibus; fo- 
liis oppositis, late ovatis, basi late rotundatis et perspicue cor- 
datis, apice breviter acute acuminatis, 5 ad 7 cm longis, in 
