Marcu 18, 1912] NEW  ÁPOCYNACEAE 1457 
Kickxia macgregori Elm. n. sp. 
A rather small or middle sized tree; stem 2 dm. thick, 8 
m. high or higher, branched above the middle; wood yellowish 
white, very soft, bitter, odorless; bark roughened with obscure 
| lenticels, brown when old, grayish mottled toward the top; 
d branches numerously and laxly rebranched, glabrous, the 
shining yellowish brown portion slender and more or less droop- 
ing. Leaves opposite, scattered, thinly coriaceous, shining deep 
green above, much paler or even yellowish green beneath, mar- 
gins entire or somewhat wavy, gradually tapering to the acute 
apex, obtuse at base, flat, the 2 sides drying unequally brown, 
lanceolately oblong, the normal blades 1 dm. long by 2.5 em. 
wide a trifle below the middle; midrib raised beneath, sunken 
above; lateral nerves about 10, usually with glands in their 
axils, divaricate, very fine, equally visible from the upper side, 
tips only faintly united, retieulations nearly obsolete; petiole 
5 to 10 mm. long, glabrous, deeply channelled. Flowers usually 
in pairs from the leaf axils, upon a 3 mm. long peduncle, odorless; 
calyx 1.5 to 2.25 em. long, light green, subtended at the base by 
| glabrate bracts, the upper 3 mm. 5-segmented, otherwise stalk- 
like, glabrous; lobes united at the base, imbrieate, not twisted, 
the median portion thiekened, 3 mm. long, ovately rotund, 
apex usually pointed; corolla tube 2 em. long, expanded and 
greenish at the base and toward the throat, glabrous except the 
throat and in the stamineal region; segments 5, white, rotately 
spreading in flower, 3 em. long, unsymmetrie, oblongish, acute 
at apex, narrowed toward the base, glabrous except on the 
upper basal portion, 1 to 1.5 em. wide at the middle or below 
it; stamens 5, erect, sessilely inserted 5 mm. below the throat; 
anthers 4 mm. long, rigid, 1 mm. wide at the base, gradually 
tapering to the very sharply pointed apex, glandular on the 
| back at the base, minutely sagittate at base, cells dehiscing 
| on the ventral side above the middle, with a finely woolly grayish 
! gland in the middle region toward the base; ovary glabrous, 
surrounded by a rim; style greenish white, 1.5 cm. long, glabrous; 
stigma 2 mm. long, thickened especially about the base. 
Type specimen 12373, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
