3 
At the time I discussed the characteristics of the genera Funtumia 
and Kickxia before the Linnean Society, there were three species, 
described under Kickzxia, referable to Funtumia, viz. Kickxia africana, 
enth., now Funtumia africana, Stapf; K. elastica, Preuss, now 
references may be found. J. Jatifolia was described first as K. latifolia 
in Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 307, and in Ann. Mus. Congo, Sér. 2,1. i. p. 42, 
and figured in Wotizbl. Bot. Gart. und Mus. Berlin, ii. p. 355, fig. F, G, 
from German East Africa, K. Zenkeri, K.Schum., from the Cameroons, 
and K. Gilletii, De Wild., and K. congolana, De Wild., both from the 
Lower Congo. I have seen no specimens of those four new species. 
K. Zenkeri is evidently very similar to F. africana, while the three 
other species are compared by the authors with F. latifolia, to which 
they seem to approach so closely that one or two of them may prove to 
be identical with it.—Orro Srapr. 
PratE 2694,—Fig. 1, a flower; 2, a flower in longitudinal section; 3, portion of a 
calyx with the pistil surrounded by the disc; 4, an anther, front view; 5, cross- 
Section through an ovary,— All enlarged ; 
Prare 2695.—Fig. 1, a portion of a leaf, underside; 2, a pair of open follicles, seen 
from the back ; 3, tip of a follicle ; 4, a seed ; 5, the same without the plume ; 6, cross- 
ra through the seed; 7, embryo.—All enlarged, with the exception of figurcs 2 
