ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 3.] | | [1905. 
ON KICKXIA AND FUNTUMIA. 
The genus, generally known as K dr Fe was originally described 
as Hasseltia by Blume in 1825 (Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. p. 1045) from 
a tree indigenous in Java. Fi hots ‘queiednaills that this name 
had eaten a been given by Kunth (#. B. & K., Nov. Gen, et Spec. 
Java, Pref. it 1828), in dedication to the Dutch Botanists 
Jean Kickx (latinised Kixius), father and son. This mode of — 
spelling was generally in use (see Endlicher, Meissner, De 
Candolle, etc.) until Blume himself in 1848 altered it into 
Kickzia (Rumphia iv. p. 25). vans used the form Kizia as 
late as 1853 (Veg. Kingd., 3rd ed., i, p. 601); but with his 
exception, Kickria has been so fates Be adopted that it would 
be pedantry to fall back on the original form Ki.xia, although this 
is no doubt more Sa ng to the eye of a scholar. So much 
to the name Kickxia 
vceaea in ‘ 
figured in Hooker’s Icon. Plant. . 2693, as K. rashes the 
Previous, yes to the acne? of these last three species, 
Bentham and Hooker recorded in 1876 (Gen. Plant. wi. p. seve 
a species from West Africa which was subsequently described a 
figured by Bentham in Hooker’s loons Plantarum t. 1276 (187 3) 
as K. africana. Bi recently i 
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