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Kentia Moluccana, Beccari. 



Ternate, at heights up to 3,500 feet. This noble and comparatively 

 hardy palm attains a height of about 90 feet. 



Kentia sapida, Blume. (Rhoj)alostylis sapida, H. Wendland and Drude.) 



The Nika-palm of New Zealand and the Chatham-Islands. It rises 

 to a height of about 40 feet, is one of the hardiest of all palms, and 

 extends to the most southern latitude attained by any palm, being 

 found down to 44 south. Proved hardy in Stewart's Island; Charl. 

 Traill. The unexpanded flower-spikes can be converted into food as 

 palm-cabbage. 



Knig-htia excelsa, R. Brown. 



The Rewa-Rewa of New Zealand. The wood of this tree is 

 recommended as valuable for ornamental work and furniture (Camp- 

 bell Walker). 



Kochia eriantha, F. v. Mueller. 



Proved an excellent fodder-herb for sheep on the hot and dry pas- 

 tures of Central Australia, where the temperature in summer reaches 

 120 F. in the shade, and in the winter falls to 27 (Rev. H. Kempe)* 

 Several other Australian species of Kochia afford excellent pasture- 

 fodder. 



Kochia pubescens, Moquin. 



South-Africa ; there one of the best salt-bushes for pastures 

 (McOwan). 



Kochia villosa, Lindley. 



In most of the depressed and saline regions of Australia, particu- 

 larly inland, also on sand-lands. Renowned amongst occupiers of 

 pasture-runs as the " Cotton-bush," strangely so called, on account of 

 downy adventitious excrescences. This rather dwarf shrub resists 

 the extremes of drought and heat of even the trying Central Austra- 

 lian clime. The roots sometimes penetrate into the ground to a depth 

 of a dozen feet. With all other pasture animals also dromedaries 

 like this and some other salt-bushes particularly for food; so also 

 ostriches (Officer). 



Koeleria cristata, Persoon. 



Widely dispersed over the globe. A perennial grass of fair nutri- 

 tive quality, sustaining itself on dry soil. The closely allied K. glauca 

 can be sown with advantage on coast-sand. 



Krameria triandra, Ruiz. 



Chili, Peru and Bolivia, at elevations of from 3,000 to 8,000 feet. 

 This pretty little shrub can be grown on sandy ridges in an equable 

 clime. It produces the medicinal Ratanhia-root, well known also as 

 a dentrifice, and used further for coloring wine. The root contains 38 

 to 43 per cent, tannin (Muspratt). Some other species have similarly 

 astringent roots, particularly K. Ixine (Loefling), from Central 



