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and ve Miers in his essay “ On the Apocynaceae of South 
America,” p.9, on account of the great similarity of the fruits 
and ed I have already pointed out the homology of the basal 
tuft of the seeds of Wrightia and of the basal awn of Kickxia, 
and. the —— identity of the structure of the embryo in 
both gen Neither of these characters by itself is of very 
grea diim mic importance; but when they appear combined, 
and coincide besides with a general parallelism in the structure 
of the flower and fruit, they become indicative of a closer 
egree 
the case with Wrightia and Kickxia. Certain Malayan species 
of Wrightia approach Kickxia rather closely i sa: general appear- 
ance, and Blanco was actually misled to enumerate Kickzia 
Blancoi as a species of Anasser,a synonym of "Wrightia. Still 
there remain these differences :—the aestivation of the corolla 
Wrightia no disc surrounding the gynoeceum 
ice ed lately two new genera from Cochin-China, Microchonea 
and Paravallaris, which belong possibly to the same stock as the 
Asiatic spation o of Wrightia E Kickxia, so far as I can judge 
rom flowering specimens. As o Funtumia, however, the re- 
semblance with Kickxia ends w ith the homology of the nominal 
appenCage and the practical identity of the structure cf t 
ht 
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ment of Echitideae, or among Hu-Echitideae on account of the 
SUARUM of the flower. In either case it will occupy an isolated 
position. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 
KICKXIA, Blume. 
Calyx ad basin 5-partitus, intus glandulis munitus, persistens ; : 
segmenta imbricata, anguste vel late ovata, acuta vel obtusa 
glandulae numero ee arenes dispositae, fimbrilliformes, au ut 
uoque pressae, ap 
natae. Corolla intandibalitornis, magna vel majuscula ; tubus 
ad vel supra medium constrictus, infra e basi subventricosa 
cylindricus vel gradatim attenuatus, supra cupulae vel campanulae 
modo epon ad constrictionem magis minusve incrassatus et 
annulo intus prominente munitus ; lobi oblongi, magis minusve 
obliqui, eel annah er obtegentes. Stamina 5, annulo 
tubi inserta, in conum circumcirca liberum in tubum ampliatum 
projectum conniventia; filamenta brevissima, crassa; antherae 
sagittatae, intus basi glandula viscosa munitae, cruribus filamentis 
aequilongis duris solidis, loculis angustissimis brevitus. Cus 
breviter tubulosus, subinteger vel 5-lobus, tenuiter carnosus, 
Carpella libera, ovato-lanceolata, sensim in stylum attenuata, 
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