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KNIGHTIA. A genus of Proteacece, con- 

 taining a single species, K. txcelsa, native 

 of the northern island of New Zealand. 

 It is distinguished by having a calyx of 

 four sepafs ; four stamens with very long 

 anthers and short filaments, one inserted 

 on each sepal a little below the middle ; 

 and a long slender style thickened at the 

 end. The fruit is a woody downy capsule, 

 ' an inch in length with the long style still 

 j attached, containing four seeds, which are 

 winged at the apex. The leaves are four 

 to six inches long, very harsh, linear ob- 

 long, coarsely and rather bluntly toothed 



Knightia escelsa. 

 and the flowers grow in axillary racemes, 

 nearly as long as the leaves, densely co- 

 vered with a reddish-brown velvety down, 

 as are also the flowers and their stalks. It 

 forms a large tree about 100 feet high, 

 erect and very narrow for its height, and 

 consequently very conspicuous. The wood 

 is much prized for its colour, which is a 

 mottled red and brown ; it is also useful as 

 readily splittingfor shingles. Embothrium 

 strobolinum, a native of New Caledonia, has 

 latterly been provisionally placed in this 

 genus under the name of K. integrifolia, 

 but the structure of the matured seeds has 

 not been ascertained. [R. H.] 



KNIGHT'S SPURS. Delphinium. 



KNIGHT'S STAR. Rippeastrum. 



KNIGHT'SWORT. Stratiotes aloides. 



KNIPHOFIA. Tritoma. 



KNIPNEE. Melicocca bijuga. 



KNITBACK. Symphytum officinale. 



KNOBTAXG. Fucus nodosus. 



KNOL KOHL. Brassica oleracea caulc- ! 

 rapa. 



KNOLLE8. Brassica Bapa. 



KNOPPERN. A curious kind of gall, 

 formed on some species of oak in Hungary 

 and other parts of Europe. i 



KNOTBERRY. Bubus Cliamcemorus. 

 KNOTTED. Cylindrical, uneven on the 

 surface,,as the pod of Chelidonium. 



sKNOTWORT. Polygonum aviculare. 



KNOTWORTS. Lindley's name for the 

 Ulecebracea. 



KNOWLTONIA. A genus of herbaceous 

 plants of the Banunculacece, having, never- 

 theless, in outward aspect, much the ap- 

 pearance of umbellifers. The flowers have a 

 green five-leaved calyx, several petals, and 

 numerous stamens and carpels. The fruits 

 are somewhat succulent, with a deciduous 

 style, and are placed on a convex receptacle. 

 These are acrid Cape plants, whose leaves 

 are used to produce blisters. [M. T. M.] 



KNOXIA. The name of a genus of cin- 

 chonaceous plants, consisting of Indian 

 undershrubs, whose flowers have a four- 

 parted calyx ; and a salver-shaped corolla 

 with lance-shaped, segments, and a hairy 

 throat, into which the stamens are at- 

 tached. The fruit is a two-celled cap- 

 sule, crowned by the calyx, and consisting 

 of two halves, which separate from a slen- 

 der central column. The species have 

 pink or white flowers. [M. T. M.] 



KOARY. An Indian grass used for 

 making mats. 



KOBRESIA. A genus of cyperaceous 

 plants, belonging to the tribe Caricinece. 

 Distinguished by the inflorescence being 

 in spikes together, or what is termed ag- 

 gregate ; lower flowers female or pistilli- 

 ferous, the upper ones male or stamini- 

 ferous, without any perianth ; perigone of 

 one scale, enclosing the germen and co- 

 vered by the glume. Steudel describes four 

 species, which are natives of high moun- 

 tains or northern latitudes. The British 

 species, K. caricina, is a rare plant, which 

 has hitherto only been observed to grow 

 on the bleak moors of the north of Eng- 

 land and Scotland. [D. M.] 



KOCHIA. A genus of CJienopodiacece 

 allied to Chenopodium, but with an urceo- 

 late perigone, the live segments of which 

 at length send outfrom their backs trans- 

 verse membranous wings. They are herbs 

 or undershrubs from the temperate regions 

 of the old world, with sessile, linear, or cy- 

 lindrical leaves (rarely absent), and axillary 

 flowers. [J. T. SJ 



KODDA-PAIL. Pistia. 



KODOYA BIKH. Aconitum ferox. 



KODRO. An Indian name for Paspalum 

 scrobiculatum. 



KCELERIA. A genus of grasses belong- 

 ing to the tribe Festucece. It is distin- 

 guished by the inflorescence being in 

 crowded spike-like panicles ; glumes un- 

 equal, two or three-ribbed ; spikelets com- 

 pressed, two to five-flowered ; lower pale 

 keeled, acuminate, or with a straight sub- 

 terminal bristle ; nut free. There are 

 about three dozen species, which have a 

 wide range, mostly inhabiting temperate 



