KLEl] 



Klyz Crcasrui'2) af ritang. 



648 



with rough nettle-like leaves, and corymbs 

 of inconspicuous white flowers terminating 

 the twigs. Klaproth, whose name the 

 genus bears, was a distinguished chemist 

 of Berlin. [A. A. B.] 



KLEINHOVIA. A genus of Sterculiacece, 

 consisting of a single species, K. hospita, a 

 low branching tree with alternate heart- 

 shaped leaves, and terminal panicles of 

 small pink flowers, which are succeeded by 

 top-shaped, bladdery, five-winged fruits, 

 with five cells having a single seed in each. 

 These curious fruits are sufficient to distin- 

 guish the genus. The calyx is five-parted ; 

 the corolla consists of five narrow unequal 

 petals ; and the staminal tube bears on its 

 apex five parcels of anthers, three in each 

 parcel. The plant is a native of the Malay 

 Archipelago, extending eastwards to the 

 Solomon Isles. Its bruised leaves are said 

 by Burmann to smell like violets. M. 

 Kleinhoff was once director of the botanic 

 garden at Batavia. [A. A. B.] 



KLEINIA. From tbe extensive genus 

 Senecio a number of African species are 

 severed by some authors who give to them 

 the name of Kleinia, distinguishing them 

 from true groundsels more by habit than 

 anything else. K, neriifolia will serve to 

 show what sort of plants they are. Grow- 

 ing on maritime rocks through all the 

 Canary Islands, this plant is commonly 

 known as Berode by the inhabitants ; it is 

 a fleshy-stemmed bush three to eight feet 

 high, with thick candelabra-like branches, 

 covered with scars of old leaves, and fur- 

 nished at the apex with a rosette of pale- 

 green lance-shaped leaves, somewhat like 

 those of the oleander but fleshy in texture ; 

 and the numerous flower-heads are dis- 

 posed in stalked corymbs arising from 

 the axils of, and shorter than, the leaves. 

 The achenes are ten-ribbed, surmounted by 

 a white pappus of rough hairs. Most of the 

 remaining species are South African ; a few 

 only Arabian; almost all having the stems 

 (when present) fleshy, and leaves like those 

 of that noted above. [A. A. B.] 



KLOPSTOCKIA. A name sometimes 

 given to the Wax Palm of the Andes and 

 a few allied species, referred by others to 



Ceroxylon. [A. S.] 



KLOTZSCHIA. A genus of umbellifers, 

 having the fruit compressed from behind, 

 each half with three dorsal approximate 

 ribs but no oil-cells, and the lateral ribs 

 small with single oil-cells. The genus was 

 named in honour of KIotzsch,a well-known 

 German botanist. The only species is an 

 herb of the warmer parts of Brazil, having 

 the stem leaves stalked, shield-shaped, five- 

 lobed, and finely veined. [G. DJ 



KLUGIA. A small genus of Cyrtandraceo?, 

 natives of India and Mexico. They are an- 

 nual herbs with alternate leaves, and blue 

 flowers in subsecund racemes. They have 

 a five-cleft calyx ; a two-lipped corolla, 

 the upper lip being the smaller and bi- 

 lobed, the lower entire ; four included 

 stamens, without trace of a fifth; and a 



l one-celled ovary surrounded by a disk, and 

 crowned by a cup-shaped stigma. [W. C] 

 KNAPBOTTLE. Silene ivflata. 

 KNAPWEED, or KNOPWEEI). Centau- 

 rea nigra ; also C. Jacea and C. Scabiosa. 



KNAITRS. Knobs or tumours formed 

 on the stems or roots of plants : see Exos- 

 tosis. 



KNAT7TIA. A genus of herbaceous 

 plants belonging to the Dipsacacece, and 

 allied to Scabiosa, from which it is distin- 

 guished by having its fruit invested with 

 a toothed, not awned, calyx. K. arvensis, 

 the only British species, is a common but 

 graceful weed in cornfields; it grows to 

 the height of two feet or more, with di- 

 vided hairy leaves, an^ large handsome 

 terminal lilac flowers, which are collected 

 into convex heads, the outer florets much 

 the largest, and having their outer seg- 

 ments larger than the inner, so as to as- 

 sume the appearance of a ray, like that of 

 the compound flowers. This is a favourite 

 plant for showing the effect of burning to- 

 bacco on vegetable colour, for the flowers, 

 immediately on being touched by a lighted 

 cigar, assume a brilliant green hue. A 

 similar effect may be produced by thus ex- 

 perimenting with other flowers of a red- 

 dish tinge, but none show so bright a 

 green as this Knautia. [C.A. J J 



KNAWEL. Scleranthus. 



KNEE-JOINTED. The same as Genicu- 

 late. 



KNEEPAN-SHAPED. Broad, round, 

 thick, convex on the lower surface, con- 

 cave on the other ; the same as Meaiscoid, 

 but thicker. See Patelliform. 



KNEIFFIA. A genus of hydnoid Fungi, 

 in which thehymenium consists of minute 

 granules, surmounted by a little bristle- 

 like point. It is very close to Grand/via. 

 E. setigera is not uncommon in our voods 

 on decayed sticks. [M. J.B.] 



KNEMA. A genus of trees nearly allied 

 to the nutmeg, and belonging to the My- 

 risticacew. The points of distinction lie 

 in the three-lobed hairy calyx, and the 

 stamens forming a column dilated at the 

 top into a disk bearing the anthers at the 

 margin. In the female flowers the stigma 

 is provided with many teeth at its margin. 

 The rigid leaves and the contracted inflo- 

 rescence also form points of distinction. 

 The trees are natives of India and other 

 parts of tropical Asia. [M. T. M.] 



KNESEBECKI A. A genus of Begoniacece. 

 Its characters are : anthers obovate, trun- 

 cately tumid at the apex, with oblique 

 chinks ; filaments umbellately monadel- 

 phous ; stigmas bipartite, dilated ante- 

 riorly at the base; placentas bilamellar, 

 with the lamellae distinct, not united into 

 a pedicel. There are thirteen species, found 

 chiefly in Mexico and central America. 

 The plants are more generally regarded as 

 Begonias, as are all those proposed to be 

 separated from it by Klotzsch. [J. H. B.] 



