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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Kalanchoe—continued. 
Southern Africa, and one from Brazil. Flowers yellow, 
purple, or scarlet, rather large, numerously disposed in 
paniculate cymes; corolla salver-shaped ; tube urceolate ; 
limb four partite, spreading. Leaves fleshy, opposite, 
sessile or petiolate, toothed, serrated, or entire. For 
culture, &c., see Crassula. 
K, (crenate-leaved). fl. yellow, in very long loose spikes. 
Autumn. J. oblong-lanceolate, broadly toothed, crenated ; crena- 
tures usually double. h. lft. to 2ft. Sierra Leone, 1793. Stove 
shrub. (B. M. 1436, under name of Cotyledon crenata.) 
K, farinacea (floury). f. scarlet, in compact umbel-like heads. 
Summer. J. round-spathulate, entire, sessile. A. 6in. to 12in. 
(R. G 
K. g q 
. grar hypocrateriform ; tube elongated, bottle-shaped ; limb of 
four reflexed ; cyme terminal, sub-sessile, man -flowered. 
May. J. succulent, ‘glaucous, 2in. to 3in. long, "opposite, sessile, 
oe, nail ——— becoming gradually smaller up the 
: ns coarsely sinuato- —— Stem succulent. A. 2ft. 
; Din 1863. “Greenhouse. (B. M. 5460.) 
KALE. See odole. 
KALMIA (named in honour of Peter Kalm, 1715-1799, 
a pupil of Linnæus, who travelled in Canada and the 
Northern States, and became Professor at Abo). American 
Laurel. ORD. Ericacew. A genus comprising six species of 
ornamental hardy evergreen shrubs, of which one is from 
_ Cuba, and the rest from North America, extending from 
Florida to California and the Arctic regions. Flowers 
_rose-coloured, purple, or white, showy, clustered or rarely 
scattered; -bracts ovate to subulate, coriaceous, or firm 
and persistent; corolla broadly campanulate or sub-hypo- 
erateriform. Leaves entire. Kalmias thrive under treat- 
ment similar to Rhododendrons and such-like plants, in 
a peaty soil, where the roots are provided with ample 
moisture. The best-known and most-grown species is 
K. latifolia. It is well adapted for forcing, in spring, 
for greenhouse or conservatory decoration. For this pur- 
pose, the plants should be potted up during winter, after 
the blossoms have well set. Propagated by cuttings ad 
~ young shoots, inserted in sandy peat, and placed in 
~ shady situation, under a hand glass; or by seeds, 
_ shallow pans of sandy peat, and key 
until the seedlings are large enor 
they may be gradually hardened o 
the open air. 
angustifo! narrow-leav — 
so large as to of K. — 
Early ‘summer. l. mostly 
to 2in. long, petioled, light. green above, dull or pale beneath. 
h. 2ft. to 3ft. Canada, 1736, A very pretty species. (B. M. 331.) 
‘There are several varieties, differing chiefly in the size of 
one, known as nana, is especially worth mention. 
pamata wedge-shape-leaved). fl., corolla white or whitish, 
—* diam —* ——— lateral, “nearly glabrous. May and 
; ek oblong, with cuneate base, lin. long; almost sessile, and 
— mucronate. h. 2ft. Northand South Carolina, 
A low, somewhat pubescent shrub. 
ea (glaucous).* fl. lilac-purple, sin. to jin. in diameter ; 
rge ; sepals ovate, scarious-coriaceous, much imbricated. 
i or rarely in threes, almost sessile, oblong or 
or appearing narrower by the usual strong revo- 
of the ed; — or —* long, glaucous-white beneath. 
K. hirsuta —— ene and axillary, on pedicels longer 
than the leaves; corolla rose-purple, barely in. in diameter; 
sepals ovate- leaflike, as long as the corolla, at length 
deciduous, leaving the old ules bare. Summer. /. nearly 
sessile, plane-oblong or lanceolate, jin. to 4in. long. h. lft. 
South-east Virginia to _— 1786. A free-branching shrub. 
 (B. M. 138.) : 
K. latifolia (broad- leaved)* Calico Calico Bush. 
viscid-pubescent ; corolla rose-colour to w 
fascicles numerous, crowded in compound 
— inflorescence very 
te, tin. in diameter ; 
terminal corymbs. 
r. l. alternate, or y somewhat in pairs or threes, 
or — ——— -lanceolate, acutish at both ends, petioled, 
h. Sft. to 10ft. tear — sometimes 
a ous districts of Canada 
E most fu 
flowering shrubs. It is 
— A handsome stove succulent decorative plant. 
flowered). J. rather large ; corolla bright _ 
anà in the deeper and lighter shade of the corolla, The dwarf 
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Kalmia—continued. 
Fig. 356. FLOWERING BRANCH OF KALMIA LATIFOLIA. 
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Fig. 357. KALMIA LATIFOLIA, showi (a) det — Flower ; 
— — — of. ditto; and j —— 
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KARATAS (derivation of name uncertain). SYNS. 
Nidularium, Regelia (of Lemaire). ORD. Bromeliacee. 
A genus comprising about ten species of stove herbaceous 
perennials, natives of the West Indies, tropical, South 
America, and several from Brazil. Flowers in dense, 
sessile, terminal heads. Leaves rosulate, often very long, 
spinoso-serrate. For culture, see Billbergia. 
K. cruenta loody). fl. blue, red; spike capitate, sub-sessile. 
February to 
arch. Z. stra rap shaped, ‘obtuse, mucronate, spinosely 
dentate, tipped with blood-red: bracts broad- oval, imbricate, 
obtuse, concave. h. lft. Rio Janeiro, 1824. (B. M. 
name of Billbergia cruenta.) 
K. humilis (dwarf). /l. crimson, in central depressed — sur- 
— by — A — — Sironi foorh 
ower ones greyish, mealy. k, lft. West Indi eg 
Fig. 358. (R. H. 1878, 190.) i 
Innocentii — bright orange-red, produced ina 
— crown, large, — apri green on the upper 
nas rig has — e beneath ; serrated. Brazil, 
dsome and compact plant. H. 1862, 329.) 
— Laurentii (Laurent’s). fl. pale blue, in short heads. 7. ligu- 
late, recurved, abruptly acuminate, light green, dotted with dark 
brown ; inner ones white oe the base. South America, 1867. 
An elegant plant. (R. G. 529 
under 
K, Legrellæ (Legrell’s). u e, white ; bracts rose. 1. 5ft. to- 
6ft. long, rigid, beset 5) puI myi 
deep pon above, sub- 
cous beneath. North Brazil, 1TA A no e species, the in- 
orescence of which is very handsome. È Ht 872, 129.) 
K. olens (putrid-smelling). urple, almost concealed the 
——— prone: — ish-white bracts. m, 
rich deep red ; lower leaves full green, glabrous, — lft. long, 
, floral ones 
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