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JUXTAPOSITION. The manner in 

 -which organs are placed with respect to 

 each other. 



JYNTEE. An Indian name for Sesbania 

 wgyptiaca, from which gunpowder charcoal 

 is made. 



KABONG. A Malayan name for Arenga 

 saccharifera. 



KADI-KANE. An Indian name for 

 Panicum miliaceum. 



KADSTJRA A genus of dicotyledonous 

 plants belonging to the ScMzandracece. 

 They are climbing mucilaginous shrubs, 

 with white or reddish unisexual flowers ; 

 sepals three : petals six to nine ; stamens 

 fifteen or more, the filaments distinct or 

 united ; ovaries numerous, the style la- 

 teral : carpels berried, distinct, forming a 

 globular capitulura. There are about 

 half a dozen species, natives of tropical 

 Asia. [J. H. B.] 



KADUA. A genus of cinchonaceous 

 undershrubs, natives of the Sandwich 

 Islands. The flowers have a leathery 

 salver-shaped corolla, with a long tube and 

 a four-parted limb. The fruit is capsular 

 and adherent below to the calyx which is 

 sometimes fleshy, while at the upper part 

 it is detached from it. [M. T. M.] 



K-EMPFERIA. A genus of tropical 

 East Indian herbs, included among the 

 Zinaiberacece. The flowers have a tubular 

 ealyx ; a corolla with a slender tube, nar- 

 row equal outer lobes of the limb, much 

 larger inner ones, and a flat lip ; the fila- 

 ment short, prolonged beyond the anther 

 into a two-lobed crest; the style thread- 

 like, with a cup-shaped stigma. The roots 

 or stocks of some of these plants are 

 purple on the exterior, white within, and 

 have an aromatic fragrance. Those of K. 

 Galanga are used medicinally in India, and 

 also as a perfume ; those of K. rotunda 

 are used for similar purposes. The flowers 

 are curious, appearing before the leaves, 

 from a very short stem. [M. T. 31.] 



KAGENECKIA. A genus of the rose 

 family, differing from most of the others 

 in the unisexual flowers and winged 

 seeds, and from its nearest allies in the 

 calyx segments overlapping each other 

 in the bud. Of three known species two 

 are found in Chili, and one in the Andes of 

 Peru. They are trees with alternate, often 

 gummy, ovate or lance-shaped leaves, and 

 white flowers, much like those of the 

 hawthorn. K. oblonga, known in Chili as 

 Lyday, furnishes a wood used for building 

 purposes, while the ' leaves being very bit- 

 ter are used by the inhabitants to cure in- 

 termittent fevers.' [A. A. B.] 



KAHOO. An East Indian name for the 

 Lettuce. 

 '. KAIMAILEE. Rottlera tinctoria. 



KAJU GART. A fragrant Malayan 

 wood obtained from Gony stylus Miquelia- 



KAKATERRO. The New Zealand Dacry- 

 dium taxifolium. 



KAKOON. An Indian name for Setaria 

 italica. 



KALADANA. Pharbitis Nil. 

 KALAF. A medicated water obtained 

 from the male catkins of Salix cegyptiaca. 



KAL A K ANGNEE. An Indian name for 

 Setaria italica. 



KALANCHOE. A genus of succulent 

 plants, natives of tropical Asia, Brazil, and 

 Africa, belonging to the order Crassulacec. 

 The flowers are four-parted ; the corolla 

 salver-shaped, with a four-parted limb ; 

 stamens eight ; capsules four, detached, 

 many-seeded. They have yellow or pinkish 

 flowers. [M. T. M.] 



KALE. Brassica oleracea acephala, an 

 open-leaved variety of Cabbage. — , IN- 

 DIAN. Caladium esculentiim. — , SEA. 

 Crambe maritima. 



KALLYMENIA. A genus of rose-spored 

 Alga?, belonging to the order Cryptonemia- 

 cea?., distinguishedby its compound capsule, 

 and its flat nearly sessile indefinite frond, 

 composed internally of threads sometimes 

 combined with cells, and externally of cells. 

 K. reniformis occurs on our southern coasts 

 at extreme low-water mark, but is more 

 common on the Atlantic coasts of Prance, 

 though it occurs as high as Orkney. At 

 first it forms a roundish or kidney-shaped 

 frond with a very short stem ; this becomes 

 proliferous and produces from the edge a 

 crop of similar expansions,which,however, 

 are frequently torn by the waves, and as 

 | they grow after the laceration the ulti- 

 1 mate appearance is very different from 

 that of younger plants. Occasionally the 

 fronds assume a longer outline. The 

 species of the genus are at present ill- 

 defined, and consequently their geographi- 

 cal distribution is doubtful. One, for in- 

 stance, at the Cape, which was considered 

 identical with our own, is now held by 

 I Agardh to be distinct. [M. J. B.] 



I KALMIA. A genus of heathworts, 

 characterised by the border of the corolla 

 having on the upper surface cavities in 

 which the stamens are partly concealed. 

 The name was given by Linnaeus in honour 

 of Peter Kalm, a Swedish professor. The 

 species are evergreen shrubs, natives of 

 j North America. Like many others of 

 ; the heathwort order, they are deservedly 

 \ favom-ites. In some species the flowers are 

 i in clusters more or less dense ; in K. hirsuta 

 they are solitary ; in K. latifolia they are 

 large and showy ; in K. a.vgusii folia smaller. 

 The regular form of the corolla between 

 wheel-shaped and bell-shaped, the depres- 

 sions or small pouches in which the stamens 

 lie, and the delicacy of texture and colour, 

 render these plants objects of interest. In 

 size of the whole plant there is consider- 

 able range, and even in the same species 

 according to locality. K. glauca and K. 

 hirsuta are shrubs of a foot in height ; K. 

 biT.ifolia, in the more northern parts of the 



