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XXI—ON KICKXIA AND FUNTUMIA. 
[ K.B., 1905, pp. 45-59.] 
The genus hera known as Kickzia, was originally described 
as Hasseltia by Blume in 1825 (Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. p. 1045) from 
a tree fndigónjus in Java. Finding subsequently that this name 
had already been given by Kunth (H. B. & K., Nov. Gen. et Spec. 
vii. p. 231) to a Tiliaceous plant, he changed it into Kixia (FI. 
Java, Praef. p. vii., 1828), in dedication to the Dutch botanists 
Jean Kickx (latinised Kixius), father and i de of 
pelling was generally i se (see Endlicher, Mein De 
Sano etc.) until Blume himself in 1848 altered it i 
umphia iv. p. 25). Lindley used the cm i. a 
laie as ^ 135: Veg. Kingd., 3rd ed., i, p. 601); but with his 
exception, Kickxia has been so universally adopted that it would 
be pedantry to fall back on the original form Kivia, although this 
is no doubt more Jed to the eye of a scholar. So much as 
to the name Kickxi 
A second alayan species, K. Blancoi, a native of the Philip- 
pines was added to the genus by Rolfe in 1884 (Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xxi. p. 313), and a third species by Koorders from Celebes in 
1898 (Mededeel. *s Lands Plantent. xix. p. 528). If we further 
add. a species from Sarawak, sa Borneo, which I described and 
figured in Hooker’s Icon. Plant. t. 2693, as K. borneensis, the 
number of VA species of Kickria | is brought up to four. 
Previous, however, to the discovery of these last three species, 
Bentham and Hooker recorded in 1876 (Gen. Plant. ii. p. T21) 
a species from West Africa which was subsequently described and 
figured by Bentham in Hooker’s Icones Plantarum t. 1276 (1879) 
K. uit cently si r 
ribed under Kickxia, namely K. latifolia, Stapf (Kew Bull 
1898, p. 307) from t go, K. elastica, reges tizbl. Bot. 
e Con 
rt. u. Mus. Berlin, ii. 1899, p. 353), from the Cameroon 18, 
K. Scheffleri, K. Schum. (Notizbl. Bot. Gart. u. ia. Berlin, iii. 
1900, p. 81) from German East Africa, K. Zenkeri, K. Schum. (l. c.) 
from the Cameroons, K. Gilletii, De Wild. (Rev. Cult. Colon. 
vii. 1900, p. 744) from the lower Congo, and K. congolana, 
De Wild. (l. c. p. 748), nn from. the lower Congo. ies these, how- 
ever, the four pe named species have, on closer amination, 
been found to be identical with K.a africana and °K. latifolia 
respectively. 
Taken in the sense of the Genera Plantarum and all the modern 
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Apocynaceae ; but they are rare. Of the 100-105 Ai aos 
genera which inhabit the tropics of the Old World, only 12 
are common to Africa and Asia, and of these five do not extend 
from the Indo-Malayan region farther west than the Mascarene 
Hide or the East Coast of Africa, whilst one C EIE o is 
wn to occur in Africa only in Natal, The remaining six 
