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Panay, Capiz Province, Mount Salibongbong, Bur. Sci, 3557 Jf 

 Martelino & Edaiio, June 19, 1919. In thickets and forests near 

 the summit, altitude about 650 meters. 



This species resembles Alyxia blancoi Merr. but is easily- 

 distinguished by its longer peduncles and by its terete, not 

 4-angled, branchlets; it differs from Alyxia lanceolata Merr. 

 in its glabrous inflorescences. 



ALYXIA OBOVATI FOLIA sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, partibus junioribus pubescens, ramulis 

 acute 4-angulatis; foliis verticillatis, crasse coriaceis, obovatis 

 ad oblongo-obovatis, 4 ad 6 cm longis, apice late rotundatis, 

 deorsum angustatis, basi cuneatis, margine valde recurvatis, 

 nervis lateralibus obsoletis; floribus axillaribus, sessilibus vel 

 subsessilibus, plerumque binis, calycis pubescens, corollae tubo 

 circiter 1 cm longo. 



A scandent vine, the branchlets sharply 4-angled, the inter- 

 nodes 2 to 4 cm long, the younger parts somewhat pubescent. 

 Leaves verticillate, usually 4 at each node, thickly coriaceous, obo- 

 vate to oblong-obovate, shining, 4 to 6 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, 

 the apex broadly rounded and sometimes slightly retuse, nar- 

 rowed below to the cuneate base, the margins strongly recurved, 

 the midrib prominent, the lateral nerves obsolete, the mature 

 leaves glabrous, the very young ones somewhat pubescent; pet- 

 ioles about 5 to 7 mm long. Flowers white, axillary, usually in 

 pairs, sessile or subsessile, the calyx pubescent, the lobes lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, about 1.5 mm long. Corolla-tube glabrous, 

 about 1 cm in length. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. SH. 34492 Ramos & Pas- 

 casio, April 25, 1919, in rather dry thickets along small streams 

 at low altitudes at the iron deposit on the northeast coast. 



A species strongly characterized by its thickly coriaceous, 

 obovate to oblong-obovate, rounded, nerveless leaves, and its very 

 short, axillary, usually 2-flowered inflorescences. It is not closely 

 allied to any previously described form. 



KIBATALIA G. Don 

 {Kickxia Blume, non Dumortier) 

 In 1827 Dumortier published the generic name Kickxia for 

 a small group of scrophulariaceous plants which some sub- 

 sequent botanists have placed in Linaria. This disposition of 

 Dumortier's genus is by no means universally accepted and some 

 European and American botanists maintain Kickxia Dum. as 

 a valid genus in spite of the fact that all current botanical 

 works of a general nature and those on the African and Indo-Ma- 



