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United States, varies from four to eight 

 feet, while farther south it attains from ten 

 to twenty feet, and when in full flower the 

 dense thickets which it forms render it a 

 prominent object. The flowers of this last 

 species yield a honey said to be dele- 

 terious, and its leaves and shoots are cer- 

 tainly so to cattle ; K. angustifolia, pro- 

 bably for the same reason, has received the 

 name Lambkin. The powdered leaves of 

 some are used as a local remedy in some skin 

 diseases. The hard wood of K. latifolia is 

 used in the manufacture of various use- 

 ful articles. The Canadian partridge is said 

 to become poisonous as human food after 

 feeding on Kalmia berries. [G. D.] 



KALOSANTHES. Rochea. 



KALUMBA-ROOT. Jateorhiza palmata. 



KAMALA. A down which covers the 

 capsules of Eottlera tinctoria, and is used 

 for dyeing orange. 



KAMBOU. A name in the Kurile Islands 

 for the Fucus saccharinus. 



KAMMA. A Russian name for birch oil. 

 KANARI. The oil-producing Java 

 Almond, Canarium commune. 



KANDELIA. A Malabar tree, constitu- 

 ting a genus of Ehizophoracece. The flowers 

 are remarkable for their five petals, which 

 are inserted into a fleshy rim lining the 

 interior of the tube of the calyx ; they are 

 divided beyond the middle into two seg- 

 ments, each of which is again broken up 

 into a number of hair-like divisions ; 

 stamens indefinite; fruit one-celled, with 

 only one seed. The species, like others of 

 the mangrove family, present the curious 

 phenomenon of the seed germinating 

 within the fruit. The bark of K. Ilhc,<in 

 is used medicinally in India. [M. T. M.J 



KANC4AROOS-FOOT PLANT. Anigo- 



zanthas Manglesii. 



KANILIA. A genus of Rhizophoracece, 

 consisting of trees and shrubs, natives of 

 tropical Asia, and whose flowers are dis- 

 tinguished by their calyx having a limb di- 

 vided into eight segments, shorter than the 

 tube ; and by the eight two-lobed convolute 

 petals, inserted into a disk lining the throat 

 of the calyx, into which are likewise in- 

 serted sixteen stamens. The ovary is two 

 to three-celled. [M. T. M.j 



KANTEN. Fucus cartilaginosus. 



KAPAS. An Eastern name for the Cotton 

 plant. 



KAPITIA. A resin obtained in Ceylon 

 from Croton lacciferum. 



KAPOK. An eastern name for the cot- 

 tony down of Bovibax pentandrum. 



KARBI. An Indian name for Sorghum 

 vulgare. 



KARELINIA. A genus of Compositce, 

 represented by a single species, K. caspica, 

 found in littoral placeson the borders of the 

 Caspian Sea, and in Siberia. It is a smooth 



erect woody-stemmed herb, having oblong 

 lanceolate entire leaves, and corymbs of 

 cylindrical purple flower-heads terminating 

 the twigs, each head containing numerous 

 tubular florets, the outer ones with pistil 

 only, and their achenes crowned with a 

 single series of soft white hairs, while the 

 inner ones are perfect and have many series 

 of pappus hairs to their achenes, which are 

 cylindrical— not one series of pappus hairs 

 and flattened achenes as in Conyza to which 

 this plant is most nearly related. The 

 genus is named in honour of M. Karelin, a 

 Russian botanist. [A. A. B.] 



KA-RI-SHUTUR. An Affghan name for 

 Alhagi Maurorum. 



KAROO-VAILUM. An Indian name for 

 the gum of Acacia arabica. 



KARWINSKIA. A Mexican genus of 

 the buckthorn family, containing two or 

 three species which have much the aspect 

 of Rhamnus, and chiefly differ from them 

 in having two instead of one ovule in each 

 cell of the ovary. K. Humboldtiana, the 

 most common species, has the smooth 

 leaves marked underneath with prominent 

 parallel nerves, and the minute greenish 

 flowers in clusters in their axils, succeeded 

 by little black berries. [A. A. B.] 



KASSOU-KHAYE. The Senegal name 

 for Khaya senegalensis, African Mahogany. 



KASSAB. An Arab name for the Sugar 

 Cane. 



KASSU. A kind of Catechu, prepared 

 from Areca Catechu. 



KAT, or KHAT. Catha eclulis. 



KATHERINE'S-FLOWER. Nigella da- 

 mascena. 



KATUMBAR. A Malay name for Cori- 

 ander. 



KANKOOR. Cucumis utilissimus. 



KAULPUSSIA. A very distinct genus 

 of marattiaceous ferns, found in India and 

 Java, with thick rhizomes and coarse ter- 

 nate fronds, but most remarkable for the 

 structure of the sori, which are dorsal, 

 sessile globose crenate fleshy coriaceous 

 concave hemispherical bodies, consisting 

 of ten or twelve spore-cases arranged in a 

 single concrete cyclose series, each spore- 

 case bursting on the inner face by a ver- 

 tical oblong or obovate cleft. The veins 

 are compoundly anastomosing, with free 

 included veinlets, and compital recepta- 

 cles. On the under surface of the fronds 

 are found curious cavities which are sup- 

 posed to be secreting organs. [T. M.] 



KAVA, KAWA. Other names for Ava, 



Macropiper methysticum. 



KAVAROO. The Tamil name for Eleu- 

 sine coracana. 



K A WE IE TREE. Dammara australis. 



KAYEA. A genus of Clusiacece, differing 

 from most others in its one-celled ovary, 

 and from its nearest ally, Calophyllum, in 





