Ixora (Alba) foliis ovatq-Ianceolatis, floribus fafcicu- 
latis. Lin. Sp. 160. Ixora with oval fp ear -Jh aped leaves , 
and flowers growing in bunches. Jafminum Indicum, 
lauri folio, inodorum, floribus albicantibus & fchetti 
album. Pluk. Phyt. 109. £2. 
3. Ixora (Americana) foliis tern is lanceolato-ovatis, fio- 
ribus thyrfoideis. Amcen. Acad. 5. p. 393. Ixora with 
oval fpear-fhaped leaves placed by threes , and flowers in a 
loofe flpike. Pavetta foliis oblongo-ovatis oppofitis, fti- 
pulis fetaceis. Brown. Jam. tab. 6. f. 2. 
The firft fort grows naturally in India, where it rifes 
with a woody italic five or fix feet high, fending out 
many (lender branches covered with abrovvnbark, gar- 
nifhed with oval leaves, placed fometimes oppofite, 
and at others there are three or four at each joint. 
The flowers terminate the branches in clufters ; they 
have very long fender tubes, are cut into four oval 
fegments at the top, and are of a deep red colour. 
The fecond fort grows aifo in India •, this hath a woody 
ftalk rifing fix or feven feet high, fending out weak 
branches, garnifhed with oval fpear-fhaped leaves 
placed oppofite, fitting clofe to the branch •, the flow- 
ers terminate the branches in fmall clufters •, they have 
long {lender tubes, divided into four fegments at the 
top, and are white, without fcent. 
The third fort grows naturally in Jamaica, and fome 
other iflands in the Weft-Indies, -where it is called 
Wild Jafrnine. This rifes with a flirubby ftalk four 
or five feet high, fending out (lender branches op- 
pofite, which are garnifhed with oval fpear-fhaped 
leaves placed oppofite, which are fix inches long, and 
two inches and a half broad, having fhort foot-ftalks » 
the flowers are produced at the end of the branches 
in a loofe fpike, they are white, and have a fcent like 
Jafrnine. 
Thefe plants are propagated by feeds, v/hen they can 
be procured from the countries where they grow na- 
turally, for they do not perfect any feeds in England. 
They fhould be fown in fmall pots as foon as they ar- 
rive, and plunged into a hot-bed ; if they arrive in 
autumn or winter, the pots may be plunged in the 
tan-bed in the ftove, between the other pots of plants, 
fo will take up little room •, but v/hen they arrive in 
the fpring, it will be beft to plunge them in a tan- 
bed under frames •, the feeds will fornetimes come up 
in about fix weeks, if they are quite frefh •, otherwise 
they will lie in the ground four or five months, and 
fometimes a whole year, therefore the earth fhould 
not be thrown out of the pots till there is no hopes 
of their growing •, v/hen the plants come up, and are 
fit to remove, they fhould be each planted in a fepa- 
rate fmall pot, filled with light earth, and afterward 
treated in the manner diretfted for the Coffee-tree. 
They may alfo be increafed by cuttings during the 
fummer months, and planted in fmall pots plunged 
into a moderate hot-bed, covering them clofe either 
with bell or hand-glafles to exclude the external air, 
fhading them carefully from the fun during the heat 
of the day, until they have put out good roots, when 
they fhould be parted, and each put into a feparate 
pot, treating them as the feedling plants. 
K A L 
ALI. See Salsola. 
KALMIA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 482. Cha- 
macrhododendros. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 604. 
tab. 373. 
The Characters are, 
The flower has a fmall permanent empalenient cut into five 
parts , and one petal cut into five fegments , which flpread 
open and are roundijh. It hath ten fiamina the length of 
the petal, which decline in the middle , terminated by oval 
flummits. In the center is fituated a roundijh germen , flup- 
porting a fender ftyle as long as the petal , crowned by an 
obtufle ftigma. The germen afterward becomes am oval or 
globular capflule with five cells , filled with very fmall 
feeds. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedtion of 
Linnaeus’s tenth clafs, intitled Decandria Monogynia, 
which includes thofe plants whofe flowers have ten 
ftamina and one ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Kalmia ( Latifolia ) foliis ovatis, corymbis terminali- 
bus. Amcen. Acad. 3. p. 19. Kalmia with oval leaves , 
and flowers growing in bunches terminating the branches. 
Chamsedaphne foliis tini, floribus bullatis umbellatis. 
Catefb. Carol. 2. p. 98. tab. 98. Dwarf Laurel with a 
Tinus leaf , and ftudded flowers growing in umbels , com- 
monly called Ivy-tree in America. 
2. Kalmia ( 'Angufti folia ) foliis lanceolatis corymbus la- 
teralibiK. Lin. Gen. Nov. 1079. Kalmia with fpear- 
fhaped leaves , and flowers growing in round bunches on the 
(Ues of the ftalk. Chamredaphne fempervirens, foliis 
K A L 
oblongis anguftis, foliorum fafciculis oppofitis. Catefb. 
Carol. 3. p. 17. Evergreen Dwarf Laurel, with oblong 
narrow leaves growing in bunches , which are placed oppofite. 
The firft fort grows naturally upon rocks and in barren 
foils in Virginia and Penfylvania, where it rifes with 
a branching ftalk to the height of ten or twelve feet, 
garnifhed with very ftiff leaves, which are two inches 
long and one broad, of a lucid green on their upper 
fide, but of a pale green on their under; they 
have fhort foot-ftalks, and ftand without order round 
the branches ; between thefe the buds are formed for 
thenext year’s flowers, at theextremityof the branches; 
thefe budsfwell during the autumn and fpring months, 
till the beginning of June, when the flowers burft out 
from their empalements, forming a round bunch (or 
corymbus) fitting very clofe to the branch ; they are 
of a pale falufh colour, the outfide of the petal is of 
a Peach colour. The flower has but one petal, whofe 
bafe is tubulous, but is cut into five roundifli feg- 
ments, ftudded with purple fpots, which are promi- 
nent ; after the flowers are paft, the germen in the 
center becomes an oval capfule, crowned by the per- 
manent ftyle, having five cells, which are full of very 
fmall feeds. This fhrub in its native foil continues 
flowering great part of the fummer, and is one of the 
greateft ornaments to the country •, but as yet it is not 
fo well naturalized to our climate as could be wifhed, 
though the plants are not injured by the cold, and 
fome of them have flowered feveral years paft in the 
Chelfea garden. 
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