Tas. 8319. 
KALMIA cunerata. 
Carolina. 
EricacEark. Tribe RHopoREAE. 
Kaumia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 596. 
Kalmia cuneata, Michx, Fl. Bor. Amer. vol. i. p. 257 ; Nuttall, Gen. North Amer. 
Pl. vol. i. p. 267; Saryent in Garden & Forest, vol. viii. p; 484, fig. 60; 
affinis K. angustifoliae, \inn., sed foliis alternis (nec verticillatis) basi 
cuneato-atteauatis vix petiolatis et subtus pilis glanduliferis obsitis facile 
distinguitur. : 
Frutex ad 1 m. altus, ramis junioribus glanduloso-puberulis rubris demum 
glabris et atro-brunneis. Folia alterna, 2-5 cm. longa, 0°5-1-6 em. lata, 
lanceolata vel oblanceolata, acuta vel obtusa, basi cuneato-attenuata, 
sessilia vel vix p:tiolata, supra glabra, atroviridia, subtus pilis minutis 
glanduliferis conspersa, jallide viridia, decidua. ores fasciculati, fasci- 
culis 2-6-floris infra foliis aggregatis. Pedicelli 1-5-2 em. longi, filiformes, 
pilis glanduliferis conspersi. Culyx profunde 5-lobus, glaber, viridis, 
rubro-marginatus; lobi 2°5 mm. longi, oblongi, obtusi, apiculati, margini- 
bus reflexis. Coro/la 1-1°5cm. diametro, late cupuliformis, bi eviter 5-loba, 
basi 10-gibbosa, glabra, extra lineis 5 glanduloso-pubescentibus, alba, 
fundo annulatim punctis rubris notata; Jobi late deltoideo-ovati, subacuti. 
Stamina 10, filameutis basi pubescentibus. Ovarium subglobosum, basi 
10-suleatum, pilis minutis glanduliferis dense ol'tectum; stylns 6-6°5 mm. 
longus, glaber. Capsulu 6 mm. diametro, valvis 5 dirupta.—N. E. Brown. 
The beautiful shrub here figured was originally discovered 
in South Carolina by Michaux prior to 1803, and was again 
met with by Nuttall in the same region, in swamps between 
Camden and Statesville, some time before 1818. Nuttall 
found it also near Newbern in North Carolina, but this very 
rare plant, which seems to be confined to Carolina, appears 
never to have been gathered, after Nuttall’s time, until 
Mr. W. W. Ashe, of the State Geological Survey, met with 
it in a pine-barren swamp between the Cape Fear and Back 
rivers, some ten miles to the north-west of Whitehall in 
North Carolina, during the winter of 1893-94. In the 
summer of 1894 it was introduced, from this locality, into 
the collection of Mr. G. W. Vanderbilt at Baltimore, where 
it flowered in June, 1905. Since then this Ka/mia has been 
collected in swamps in Bladen county, North Carolina. 
The plant from which the figure of A. cuneata now given 
June, 1910, 
