This section is from the book "Handbook Of Hardy Trees, Shrubs, And Herbaceous Plants", by W. Botting Hemsley. Also available from Amazon: Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants.
Differing from the last genus in having an involucel of 6 to 9 connate bracts. Only one species is known, a native of Hungary. A commemorative name.
1. K. vitifolia. - A tall plant with angular 5-lobed leaves. Involucel exceeding the calyx. Flowers pedunculate in the axils of the upper leaves, large, showy, white or rose, produced all the Summer.
 
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