NAT. ORDER. 



Bicornes. 



KALMIA GLAUCA. GLAUCOUS KALMA. 



Class X. Decandria. Order I. Monogynia 



Gen. Clmr. CalyXj five parted. Corolla, salver-shaped. Capsule, 

 five-celled, many-seeded. Floicers, disposed in terminal, race- 

 mose, compoimd corymbs. Pedicels, long, one-flowered, tribroc- 

 teate at the base. Buds, naked. Anthers, opening- by two 

 oblique, truncate pores. 



Spe. Cliar. Branchlets, two-edg-ed or triquetrous. Leaves, opposite. 

 Pedicels and Calyxes, g-labrous. 



The Cahjx is a five-parted pei-ianthium, small, and permanent ; 

 the segments are subovate, acute, and rather columnar ; the corolla is 

 one-petalled, and salver-funnel-form ; the tube cylindnc, and longer 

 than the calyx ; the border is adorned with a flat dirk, the marg-in 

 uprig-ht, and half-five-cleft ; there are ten nectariferous hornlets pi'oject- 

 ing outwardly from the corolla, and suiTOunding it where the border 

 of it is upright ; the stamens have ten awl-shaped filaments, upright- 

 spreading, rather shorter than the corolla, and inserted into the base of 

 the corolla ; die anthers are simple ; the instill is a roundish germ ; 

 the style is thread-form, longer than the corolla, and bent down ; the 

 stigma obtuse ; the pericarp is a capsule, subglobose, depressed, five- 

 celled, five-valved, and five-partite ; the seeds are numerous. 



This plant rises wnth a branching stalk to the height of ten or 

 twelve feet, with very stiff" leaves, which are about two inches long 

 and one liroad ; they are of a lucid green on their upper surface, and 

 of a pale gi'een on their under ; they have short foot-stalks, and stand 

 without any kind of order round the branches ; between these the 

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