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pie flower-heads, each surrounded by a 

 number of prickly scales, which are like 

 the stem leaves. K. lanatum, one of the 

 most widely distributed species, is remark- 

 able for the loose white wool which hangs 

 from the stems and flower-heads, giving 

 them the appearance of distaffs loaded 

 with wool. K. arborescens, a Spanish plant, 

 grows eight or ten feet high. According 

 to Boissier, this plant gives quite a cha- 

 racter to the lower warm regions in Gra- 

 nada, and is popularly known as Cardo 

 Santo, or Cardo lechero. [A. A. B.] 



KERAMIDIUM. The same as Cysto- 

 carp. 



KERMESINUS. Carmine-coloured. 

 KERNELWORT. Scrophularia nodosa. 

 KEROBETA. An Abyssinian name for 

 Balsamodendron Myrrha. 



KERRIA. An evergreen shrub, with 

 long slender branches, invested with 

 smooth green bark, lanceolate acuminated 

 leaves, which are coarsely and unequally 

 serrated, and numerous buff-yellow flowers. 

 The double-flowered form is commonly 

 cultivated under the name of Corchorus 

 japonicus. The structure of its flowers 

 approaches that of Spircea, near which it 

 is placed in the system. French : Corete 

 du Japon. [C. A. J.] 



KESHOOR. A Bengal name for Eottlera 

 tinctoria. 



RESTING, 

 Plum. 



KESLING. The Bullace 



KETCHUP, or CATSUP. A name origi- 

 nally of Eastern origin, now applied to a 

 favourite condiment prepared from various 

 Fungi, as mushrooms, morels, champi- 

 gnons, &c. It is usually made by sprink- 

 ling the fungi when broken up with salt, 

 and boiling the expressed juice with spice. 

 The best way, however, is to let the juice 

 drain without squeezing, and after stand- 

 ing for twelve hours to rack it off clear, 

 and bottle it, filling the top of the bottle 

 up with alcohol in which the proper spices 

 have been previously steeped. Prepared 

 in this way it retains its peculiar aroma 

 much more perfectly than when boiled. 

 Ketchup is often prepared for sale from 

 agarics collected almost indiscriminately. 

 no care being taken to discard notoriously 

 poisonous species. The mass, moreover, 

 frequently becomes putrid before it is 

 boiled, and the ketchup is in consequence 

 disgusting in flavour, and if taken largely 

 very unwholesome. The best ketchup is 

 prepared from Agaricus campestris, but a 

 very good quality may be obtained from 

 an admixture of other species, especially 

 A. procerus, if care is used. [M. J. B.] 



KETIMONS DES INDIENS (Fr.) Cucztr 

 mis satiims. 



KETMIE. (Fr.) Hibiscus. — MUSQUEE 

 Abelmoschus moschatus. 



KHAIR-TREE. Acacia Catechu. 

 KHAT. Cathaedulis. 



K HAY A. The name of a lofty Senegam- 

 bian tree, forming a genus of Cedrelacea 

 closely allied to Stvietenia, but distin- 

 guished from it by the parts of the flower 

 being in fours, and by the fruit bursting 

 from above downwards. The bark of K. 

 senegalensis is used as a febrifuge on the 

 banks of the Gambia river, while the wood 

 is like mahogany. [M. T. M.] 



KHEU. Melanorrhcea usitatissima. 



KHISMIS. A Malay name for Raisins. 



KHORMA. A Malay name for the Date. 



KHUJJOOR. Phoenix sylvestris. 



KHUS. An Indian name for Andropogon 

 muricatus. 



KHYAR. An Egyptian name for Cucu- 

 mis sativus. 



KIBARA. A genus of but one species, 

 K. coriacea, belonging to the Monimiacew, 

 and differing from the other genera in the 

 sterile flowers having but five to seven 

 instead of many stamens. It is a large 

 tree of Malacca and Java, having laxge 

 opposite ovate oblong leaves, and small 

 yellow flowers borne in axillary cymes. 

 The fertile flowers, supported by two 

 bracts, have the mouth of the calyx nearly 

 closed by two or three series of scales 

 enclosing a number of ovaries, which when 

 ripe are oblong stalked drupes about half 

 an inch in length. [A. A. B.] 



KIBI. The Japanese name for Millet. 

 KIDAR-PATRI. An Indian name for 



Limonia laureola. 



KIDNEY-BEAN TREE. Wistaria frutes- 



KIDNEY-SHAPED. Resembling the 

 figure of a kidney ; that is to say, crescent- 

 shaped, with the ends rounded, as the leaf 

 of Asarum europwum. 



KIDNEY-WORT. Umbilicus pendulinus; 

 also Saxifraga stellar is. 



KIELMEYERA. A genus of resinous 

 shrubs or small trees of Brazil, belonging 

 to Ternstriimiacece, and related to Camellia, 

 from which they differ in the petals being 

 twisted instead of simply overlapping 

 each other in the bud, and from others of 

 their allies in their very numerous flat- 

 tened and winged seeds. They have alter- 

 nate, glossy, lance-shaped or elliptical 

 leaves, with numerous nerves running at 

 right angles to the midrib, and racemes 

 or panicles of white or rose-coloured flow- 

 ers, which in some species are small, but 

 in others large and rose-like, thus suggest- 

 ing the name Roso do Campo, by which 

 some of the species are known in Brazil. 



K. speciosa, called by the Brazilians 

 Malvo do Campo, from the resemblance of 

 its flowers to those of some mallows, has 

 an abundance of mucilage in its leaves, 

 which in decoctions are used by them for 

 fomentations. M. St. Hilaire remarks as a 

 curious circumstance, that we have sooth- 

 ing properties in the leaves of this plant, 



