QQ The Philippine Journal of Science 1915 



A species apparently allied to Alstonia angustifolia Wall., of the Malay 

 Peninsula, but differing in many characters, notably, in its quite different 

 flowers. 



KICKXIA Blume 



KICKXIA BLANCOI Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 313. 



Kickxia arborea Vid. Sinopsis Atlas (1883) t. 67, f. G; F.-Vill. Novis. 

 App. (1880) 132; Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, t. 428 bis, non 

 Blume. 



Kickxia nierrittii Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1910) Bot. 355. 



Kickxia macgregorii Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 4 (1912) 1457. 



Rolfe's species is typified only by the plate in the third edition of 

 Blanco's Flora de Filipinas, no description having been published; the 

 plate well represents the species as here interpreted. There is some 

 variation in vegetative characters, but in essentials the species is quite 

 constant. A careful examination of all available material has convinced 

 me that the two recently described species, above cited as synonyms, are 

 not distinct from Kickxia blancoi Rolfe. The species is sometimes known 

 as lanete, as laneting gubat, and as ayate, and probably represents the 

 form mentioned by Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 114, ed. 2 (1845) 81 after 

 the description of Anasser laniti as "Hai otra especie con las flores axilares 

 solitarias." It is represented by the following material: 



Luzon, Province of Batangas, Looc, For. Bur. 7649 Curran & Merriti; 

 Santo Tomas, For. Bur. 21545 Tamesis: Province of Laguna, Calamba, 

 For. Bur. 20964 Villamil. Mindoro, For. Bur. 11488 Merritt (type of 

 K. nierrittii Merr.). Guimaras, For. Bur. 862 GammiU. SiBUYAN, Elmer 

 1237S (type number of K. macgregorii Elm.). Negros, For. Bur. 15112 

 Tabat. Leyte, Wenzel 330, July, 1913. Without definite locality, Loher 

 6329. 



By description alone Kickxia macgregorii Elm. appears to be a remark- 

 ably distinct form, but this is due to errors in the description. "Calyx 

 1.5 to 2.25 cm long" is the description of the pedicel, the calyx being very 

 short; the pedicel is subtended by a very few, small, obscure bracteoles. 

 The flowers are about 6 cm long as in the other specimens referred to Kickxia 

 blancoi Rolfe and as represented by Naves' plate. 



TABERNAEMONTANA Linnaeus 



TABERNAEMONTANA HEXAGONA sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber, circiter 2 m altus; foliis chartaceis vel sub- 

 membranaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 17 cm longis, acutis 

 ad abrupte obtuseque acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 14, 

 patentibus; pedunculis axillaribus, ut videtur paucifloris; fruc- 

 tibus oblongo-lanceolatis, rectis, acuminatis, basi acutis, 6-an- 

 gulatis vel angulis propriis (3) anguste 3-alatis, alternantibua 

 vix alatis, circiter 6 cm longis, in siccitate minute verruculosis. 



A glabrous shrub, according to the collector about 2 m 

 high. Branches terete, light-gray, the younger ones somewhat 

 compressed when dry- Leaves membranaceous to somewhat 

 chartaceous, oblong-elliptic, the larger ones 13 to 17 cm long, 4 

 to 7 cm wide, base acute or decurrent-acuminate, apex acute to 



