17, 3 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVI 307 



layan floras maintain Kickxia Blume for a genus of apocynaceous 

 plants. Under the circumstances it would seem that Kickxia 

 Blume must be abandoned, as its use is distinctly invalidated by 

 Dumortier's previous use of the same name for a different genus 

 of plants. 



The genus under discussion was originally described in 1826 

 as Hasseltia Blume, this name being invalidated by the earlier 

 Hasseltia HBK. The first description of the genus under the 

 name Kickxia was published in 1848,^ but as early as 1828 Blume 

 had realized the necessity of a new name for his Hasseltia and 

 proposed ^ to subsitute the name Kickxia which, however, due 

 to a typographical error appears as Kixia; as Blume himself in 

 later publishing a description and figure of this genus altered the 

 name to Kickxia and, further, as the genus was dedicated to 

 Prof. Jean Kickx no other explanation of Kixia is possible and 

 accordingly this form has no valid standing. 



No new name is necessary for this apocynaceous genus in 

 view of the fact that G. Don * has proposed the generic desig- 

 nation Kibatalia for Hasseltia Blume, non HBK. So long as 

 individual botanists differ in their conception as to what consti- 

 tutes and what does not constitute a genus cases of nomencla- 

 ture like this will occur; and unless Blume's generic name be 

 definitely abandoned we have here a case where Kickxia Blume 

 will be recognized by those botanists who do not recognize 

 Kickxia Dum. as distinct from Linaria, while those who recog- 

 nize Dumortier's genus as a valid one cannot recognize Kickxia 

 Blume as a generic designation. The logical course to follow 

 in this case seems to be to abandon Blume's generic name and 

 adopt Kibatalia for the group as proposed by G. Don. 



KIBATALIA LONGI FOLIA sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra ; f oliis chartaceis, oblongis, usque ad 17 cm longis, 

 basi acutis, apice acutis vel breviter acuminatis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 10, tenuibus, vix anastomosantibus ; inflorescentiis 2- vel 

 3-floris, breviter pedunculatis, coroUae tubo circiter 2.5 cm longo, 

 lobis 4 cm longis ; f olliculis subligneis, rectis vel leviter curvatis, 

 17 ad 20 cm longis, 2 cm diametro. 



A glabrous tree, about 16 m high, the branchlets smooth, red- 

 dish-brown, the branches of about the same color and distinctly 

 lenticellate. Leaves firmly chartaceous, oblong, 12 to 17 cm long, 



'Blume, C. L. Rumphia 4 (1848) 25. 

 "Blume, C. L. Fl. Jav. Praef. 1 (1828) VII. 

 'Gen. Syst. 4 (1838) 86. 



