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KALMIA 



smooth and dark green above, paler and with scattered gland-tipped hairs 

 beneath. Flowers produced in June and July at the end of the previous year's 

 growth in a series of clusters (fascicles), each consisting of two to six blossoms. 

 Corolla white, i to f in. across, cup-shaped ; lobes shallow, rounded. Calyx- 



KALMIA CUNEATA. 



lobes | in. long, ovate, green, smooth ; flower-stalks thread-like, j to ij ins. 

 long, beset with a few scattered hairs. 



Native of the Carolinas, south-eastern United States ; discovered by 

 Michaux, and introduced to Britain in 1820, but for many years quite lost to 

 cultivation, until reintroduced to Kew in 1904. It is a distinct species, but has 

 a somewhat inelegant habit owing to its sparse branching. It loses all or 



