KRIGIA 



1757 



surface of the ground and tie three to five plants 

 together by their leaves to form a bunch. To pre- 

 pare it for the table it should be peeled and cut into 

 dice about %inch square and cooked the same as 

 cauliflower. Vilmorin says that some of the large, 

 coarse varieties are grown in Europe for stock feed. It 

 is doubtful whether it will ever find favor in this coun- 

 try for this purpose for the reason that in most locali- 

 ties turnips, cabbage, or marrow kale will outyield it. 



L. C. CORBETT. 



KOLKWITZIA (after Richard Kolkwitz, professor 

 of botany, Berlin). Caprifolidceae. A shrub allied to 

 Abelia, but differing in the fls. being arranged in pairs 

 at unequal height, one above the other, in 

 the sepals not enlarging after flowering and 

 in the numerous ovules. Only 1 species in 

 Cent. China, recently intro.; it has proved 

 hardy at the Arnold Arboretum, but has not 

 yet flowered. Prop, is by greenwood cuttings 

 in late summer. K. amabilis, Graebn. Small 

 deciduous shrub with slender, hairy branches: 

 Ivs. ovate, acute or acuminate, rounded at 

 the base, denticulate or nearly entire, spar- 

 ingly hairy above, more densely hairy below, 

 1-1% in. long: fls. in axillary slender- 

 peduncled pairs, forming short panicles at 

 the end of short branchlets; sepals linear; 

 corolla tubular - campanulate, white, flushed 

 with pink, puberulous, ^in. long; stamens 

 4, included: fr. a usually 1-seeded ribbed 

 achene, crowned by the persistent stipitate 

 calyx, in pairs. H.I. 30:2937. B.M. 8563. 

 ALFRED REHDER. 



KONIGA (Charles Konig, of the British 

 Museum early in last century). Sometimes 

 written Koeniga. Cruciferx. A genus established in 

 1826 by Robert Brown, but now included in Alyssum. 

 Trade-lists still contain Koniga maritima, R. Br., which 

 is Alyssum maritimum; and K. variegata of lists is the 

 variegated form of A. maritimum. K. spinosa, Spach 

 = Alyssum spinosum. 



KOPSIA (Jan Kops, Dutch botanist, 1765-1849). 

 Apocyndceae. A few trees or shrubs (upward of a dozen 

 species), somewhat allied to oleander, grown in warm- 

 houses and also offered (species not given) in S. Fla. 

 Lvs. opposite, very short-petioled : fls. white or pink, 

 in terminal cymes; calyx 5-parted, the segms. with 

 glandular tips; corolla salverform with a very slender 

 tube and a hairy throat; stamens inserted near the top 

 of the tube, not protruding ; disk of 2 glands : fr. 2 carpels; 

 1-celled, coriaceous or fleshy. India and Malaysia to 

 the Philippines. K. fruticosa, A. DC. Large evergreen 

 shrub, with Ivs. 4-8 in. long, elliptic or elliptic-lanceo- 

 late: fls. pink, the tube \Y<i in. long and limb 1-2 in. 

 across. K. orndta, Hort., shrub from Malaya, with 

 large oblong-lanceolate glossy Ivs., and white red- 

 centered salverform fls. in corymbose panicles; appar- 

 ently not botanically described under this name. 



L. H. B. 



KOROLK6WIA: Fritillaria. K. Sewerzow, Regel and K. dis- 

 color, Hort.=F. Sewerzowi. 



KORTHALSIA (Peter W. Korthals, a German 

 botanist). Palmdcese, tribe Lepidocdryeae. Feather- 

 leaved palms from farther India to Borneo and New 

 Guinea, little grown in warmhouses. Climbing and 

 usually spiny plants with pinnatisect Ivs., the Ifts. 

 mostly more or less cuneate or trapezoid and erose: 

 fls. perfect, crowded in cylindric and catkin-like spikes; 

 sepals orbicular or oblong, and petals ovate or lanceo- 

 late; stamens and staminodia 6 or more: fr. 1-seeded, 

 nearly globular or ovoid: spadix axillary and loosely 

 branched, pendulous, in sheathing tubular presistent 

 spathes: some of the ligules of the petiole-sheath harbor 

 ants. About 20 species, imperfectly understood. One 



species is offered abroad. K. robusta, Blume (K. 

 Junghuhnii, Miq.), from Java. Petiole 1 ft. long, not 

 armed; Ifts. 7-9, rhomboidal, more or less attenuated 

 below into a stalk-like base, sharp-pointed at apex, 8-16 

 in. long; rachis backwardly or retrorsely hooked or 

 armed; end of If. terminating in a hook-like process. 

 Java. L. H. B. 



KOSTELETZKYA (named for V. F. Kosteletzky, 

 professor of medicinal botany at Prague, and author of 

 several books). Malvaceae. Perennial herbs or shrubs 

 closely related to Hibiscus, 6 species of which are found 

 in Amer., 1 in. Abyssinia and 1 from W. and Cent. 



2045. Kohlrabi. 



Italy through S. Russia to Persia. Lvs. sagittate, lobed: 

 fls. solitary or clustered in the axils of the Ivs., often in 

 terminal panicles or racemes, pink, purple or white; 

 bractlets 7-10, often very small or obsolete; staminal 

 column entire or 5-toothed; ovary 5-celled with 1 ovule 

 in each cell: caps, depressed, dehiscing loculicidally 

 along the 5 projecting angles. K. pentacarpa, Ledeb., 

 is the only European species and has been described in 

 horticultural literature abroad. An erect plant, about 

 3 ft. high: Ivs. cordate, toothed: fls. purple-red, rather 

 large, borne singly on peduncles a little shorter than 

 the Ivs. K. virginica, Presl. Foliage pubescent, often 

 scabrous: sts. 1-4 ft. high, branching: panicles leafy; 

 calyx caneecent; petals pink or purple: caps, hirsute at 

 maturity. Marshes along the coast, N. Y. to Fla. and 

 La. 



KRAMERIA (John George Henry Kramer, of Hun- 

 gary in the early part of the 18th century). Legumi- 

 nosas; by some referred to Polygaldceas. Woody plants, 

 or perennial herbs, of minor horticultural value, some- 

 times grown in the warmhouse, from Trop. Amer., 

 upward of a dozen species. Silky-tomentose : Ivs. 

 alternate, small, entire or of 3 Ifts.: racemes terminal, 

 carrying red or purplish fls.; sepals 4 or 5, about equal; 

 petals 5, very unequal in sets of 3 and 2, the former 

 long-clawed and connate or rarely free, the 2 orbicular 

 and very much shorter; stamens 4, connate part way, 

 the anthers opening by a pore: fr. 1-seeded, coriaceous 

 and indehiscent. K. tridndra, Ruiz & Pav., of Peru, 

 is probably the most important species horticulturally: 

 small shrub: Ivs. alternate or scattered, close together, 

 elliptic or obovate, apiculate, hairy: fls. bright scarlet. 

 This and other species supply the rhatany root of apoth- 



L. H. B. 



KRAUSSIA: Tricalysia. 



KRIGIA (David Krig or Krieg, an early collector 

 in Maryland and Delaware). Syn. Adopdgon, Neck. 

 Composite. Hardy herbaceous plants, annual and 



