7. Kalmia L. 
Erect shrubs with alternate, opposite or whorled leathery persistent 
leaves. Flowers in terminal or axillary corymbs or umbels. Sepals 6, 
persistent. Corolla saucer-shaped, pink or white, with 10 pouches below the 
lobes and sinuses. Stamens 10, the anthers at first contained in the pouches 
whence they are released by the springing of the elastic filaments. Ovary 
Sechambered. Fruit a 5-valved, septicidal capsule. 
1. Ke polifolia Wang. var microphylla Hook. Laurel. A low sanetimes 
prostrate shrub 20-30 om. tall, usually forming clumps » the old bark snooth, 
grayish, the branchlets glabrous, brown; leaves Loatherp, 1.5-%.5 om. long, 
6-12 mm. wide, oval or elliptical, acute or obtuse at both ends, the margin 
entire, the upper surface green and glossy, the lower glaucous but not 
glandular-punctate, very smooth, on petioles 1-2 mn. long; flowers several, 
erect; the sepals ovate, obtuse, 3 mm. long} #he corolla 
rose-purple, 10-15 mn. across, the lobes at first erect, then spreading, each 
lobe and sims provided with a small pouch in which the purple anther rests; 
mature pedicels 2.5-4 om. long, glabrous, Slender, the capsules flattenede 
globose, 425-6 mm. in diameter, glabrous, a5 
Near small lakes in boggy ground usu@lly at high elevations, Priest 
Lakes; Snow-Peak, 5500 ft; Hoodoo Lakes Scurvy Mt.,; 5800 ft.; Roman Nose 
Peak, 7000 ft.; Lake Darlings 
