Marcu 18, 1912] New  APOCYNACEAE 1455 
HALORRHENA R. Br. 
i Halorrhena daronensis Elm. n. sp. 
À small erect tree, 6 m. high and with a 2 dm. thick stem; 
wood moderately soft, white, odorless, with a distinet sweetish 
taste; bark smooth, whitish mottled, with milky sap; main 
branches arising above the middle, ascending, ultimately nu- 
merously rebranched and forming a dense erown; twigs smooth, 
glabrous, shining brown, ascendingly curved, quite lax. Leaves 
' coriaceous, horizontal or descending, shallowly folded, with 
| abruptly constricted recurved bluntly rounded acute tips, shal- 
| lowly folded upon the upper sublucid side, much paler green 
on the lower surface, the entire and slightly involute margins 
occasionally somewhat wavy, base acute to subcuneate, oblong, 
oppositely scattered along the branchlets, glabrous, drying 
unequally brown on the 2 sides, the larger blades 1 dm. long by 
3.5 em. wide at the middle, frequently smaller; midrib deep 
. brown and conspicuous beneath; lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, 
! relatively prominent beneath and of the same color, divaricate, 
x strongly ascendingly curved, only faintly united, reticulations 
very obscure; petiole dark brown when dry, 1 em. long, glabrous, 
finely grooved above. Infrutescence terminal or appearing from 
the lowermost leaf axils, pendant, upon stout terete 2.25 em. 
long peduncles, always in pairs; follicles 5 dm. long, usually 
eurved and twisted, angularly terete, gradually tapering toward 
the apex; seeds very linear, densely covered with brownish 
or silky hairs. 
Type specimen 11912, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, October, 1909. 
Found in dry woods along the Baracatan creek at 2000 
feet altitude. “Tacan” is the Bagobo name. 
Possibly it belongs to Kickria Blm. but is a different 
species from K. maegregori Elm. 
KICKXIA Blm. 
Kickxia gitiigense Elm. n. sp. 
A middle sized tree; stem 3 dm. thick, terete, 12 to 15 m. 
