A NEW PHILIPPINE BIKKIA 

 By Th. Valeton 

 Of Leiden, Holland 

 BIKKIA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 



Frutex habitu generis. Hamulus 6 mm crassus, medio defo- 

 liatus et fructifer, internodiis brevibus, foliis cum floribus axil- 

 laribus versus apicem confertis. Stipulae in annulum connatae, 

 apice brevi-apiculatae et sub<!arinatae. Folia elliptico-lanceo- 

 lata (major 11X3.5 cm), apice obtusa acute submucronata, 

 basi attenuata in petiolum decurrentia, mediocrem, in sicco 

 crasse rigide coriacea, ochracea, costa lata nervis subimmersis. 

 Flores tetrameri ceterum lis B. grandiflorae similes, corollae 

 tubo proratione magis elongato. Calycis lobi late lanceolati 

 ancipites, acuti, circiter 10 mm longi, post anthesin elongati, 

 ovarium longitudine aequantes. Corollae tubus (in alabastro 

 maturo) 50 mm longus, sensim in limbum angustum dilatatus. 

 Lobi trigoni acuti, lateraliter leviter emarginati. Ovarium 

 argute costulatum, biloculare. Placenta in quoque loculo lamel- 

 liformis apice bifida ramis appressis vel demum recurvis et in- 

 crassatis extus ovuligeris. Capsulae parvae, 28 mm longae, 

 bivalvae, valvis fere ad medium usque fissis, demum epicarpio 

 denudatis et contortis, apice 20 mm latis, obtrigonis; librae 

 epicarpii 8, filiformes. 



Cebu, Mualbual, Elmer 12052, October, 1909. (The same 

 species is also represented by Merrill 5297 from Sibutu, Sulu 

 Archipelago, and Bur. Sci. 3U28, 3A583 Ramos & Pascasio, Su- 

 rigao Province, Mindanao. All specimens were originally de- 

 termined as Bikkia grandiflora Reinw. — E. D. M.) 



In habit this species is strikingly similar to Bikkia grandi- 

 flora Reinw., but the 4-fid fruit, the bifid valves of which are 

 wholly detached from the placenta, and the structure of the 

 ovary indicate that its proper place is in the subgenus Eubikkia; 

 the type of this subgenus is Bikkia tetrandra A. Gray, based 

 on Portlandia tetrandra Forst. from Savage Island. Bikkia 

 grandiflora Reinw., from the structure of its ovary and its fruit, 

 belongs in the subgenus Bikkiopsis, which is typified by B. 



