17, 3 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVI 309 



base of the connectives broadly ovate, about 1 mm long. Disk 

 obscurely toothed, 1 mm high. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 3Jlf691 Ramos & Pas- 

 casio, June 14, 1919, along streams at low altitudes at the iron 

 deposit on the northeast coast. 



This species is at once distinguished from Kibatalia blancoi 

 Merr., to which it is most closely allied, by its cylindric corolla- 

 tubes which are not enlarged upward, and by its narrowly lan- 

 ceolate corolla-lobes which do not exceed 4 mm in width. 



The hitherto described species of this genus are as follows : 



KIBATALIA AFRICAN A (Benth.) comb. nov. 



Kickxia africana Benth. in Hook. Ic. Ill 3 (1877-79) 59, t. 1276. 

 Tropical Africa, Kamerun, Preuss 1382! 



KIBATALIA ARBOREA (Blume) G. Don Gen. Syst. 2 (1837) 86. 

 Hasseltia arborea Blume Bijdr. (1826) 1045. 

 Kickxia arhorea Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, 1 (1840) 846; Blume Rumphla 



4 (1848) 26, t. 179, f. I. 

 Kixia arhorea A. DC. Prodr. 8 (1844) 408. 



Java, cult. Hort. Bogor. IV-A-80!, IV-A-80a!, XI-B-186! 



KIBATALIA BLANCO! (Rolfe) comb. nov. 



Kickxia blancoi Rolfe in Joum. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 313. 

 Kickxia arborea F.-Vill, Novis. App. (1880) 132; Naves in Blanco 



Fl. Filip. ed. 3 (1877-83) t. h28 bis, non Blume. 

 Kickxia merrittii Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 315. 

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



A Philippine species widely distributed from northern Luzon 

 southward to Guimaras and Negros, represented by For. Bwr. 

 26678 Penas, 25863 Adduru, 25Jf65 Paraiso, 20964 Villamil, 25726 

 Mabesa, 76^9 Curran & Merritt, 11^88 Merritt, 21545 Tamesis, 

 15113 Tabat, Elmer 12373, Wenzel 320. 



KIBATALIA BORNEENSIS (Stapf) comb. nov. 



Kickxia borneensis Stapf in Hook. Ic. IV 7 (1901) i. 2693. 

 Borneo. 

 KIBATALIA ELASTIC A (Preuss) comb. nov. 



Kickxia elastica Preuss in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 2 (1899) 853. 

 Tropical Africa, Kamerun, Zenker 188! 



KIBATALIA LATI FOLIA (Stapf) comb. nov. 



Kickxia latifolia Stapf in Kew Bull. (1898) 307. 

 Tropical Africa. 



KIBATALIA SCHEFFERI (K. Schum.) comb. nov. 



Kickxia schefferi K. Schum. in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 3 (1900) 81. 

 German East Africa, herb. Amani 416! 



