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o.-ipacity of fecretary. He departed from Stockholm 

 i'^^; fpent a fnort time at Mofcow, and then proceeded 

 ' pahan, where he remained two years. His ardour in 

 purfuit of knowledge had fo nnieh increafcd during this 

 d, that ir.ikad of returning wiili Fabricius, he obtained 

 ppointment of chief furgeon to the Dutch Eafl India 

 v_vu.pany, in wliich capacity he had the full enjoyment of 

 his wifhes, for he penetrated as far as the kingdoms of Siam 

 and Japan. The geography of thefe parts had been but 

 very imperfectly known, till Kiempfer's genius and indullry 

 fupplied the deficiency, and the world is indebted to 

 him, for having full given a correft idea of the fituation of 

 different places, which had before been inacceffible to 

 ftrangers. On his return to Europe in 1694, he graduated 

 at Leyden, and fettled in his own country. Here he did 

 not remain idle, but was coHllantly employed iathe compo- 

 fition of feveral works, and in the praftice of phyfic. He 

 \va3 appointed phyfician to his fovereign, and terminated a 

 tifeful life in the year 17 16, aged 65. His inaugural dif- 

 fertation, pubhlTied at Leyden in 1694, is intitled " De- 

 cas obfervationum exoticarum." Of this a copy is prefcrvcd 

 in Dr. Smith's library, but we have never met with any 

 other. The fubjetts on which it treats are, i, the ylnrms 

 Scythicus, or Borometz : z, the bitternefs of the Cafpian lea: 

 3, of the native Mtwi'ui, or bitumen, of Perlia : 4, of the 

 Torpedo, or eleArical tifh of the Perfian gulf ; 5, of the 

 drug called dragon's blood, produced by the fruit of a 

 palm : 6, of the Dracunciilus of the Perfians, a fort of worm 

 proceeding from a tumour in the llcin : 7, on the /Indrum, 

 or endemic hydrocele of the Malabars : 8, on the Perical, or 

 ulcer of the feet among the fame people : 9, on the cure of the 

 colic amongftthe Japanefe by punfture witha needle: 10, on 

 the Mo.xa, or aftual cautery, of the fame people and the 

 Chinefe. Thefe fubjefts are, as Haller obfcrves, all of 

 them probably treated more fully in the great work of our 

 author, publifhed at Lemgow in 1712, entitled " Amoenitates 

 Exotics," and fo often quoted by Linnaeus for its botany, as 

 well as other authors for its authentic details, relating to the 

 hiftory and manners of Perfia, and other parts of the Eaft. 

 His hiftory of Japan is well krown by the Englifli tranllation 

 in folio, and is extremely valued for its accuracy and fidehty. 

 Kxmpfer was fkilled in the ufe of the pencil, as the plates of 

 his works teftify. Some botanical drawings of his, made in 

 Japan, are preferved in the Britilh Mufeum. Of thefe fir Jo- 

 feph Banks, in 1791, liberally prefented the learned world 

 with 59 folio engravings at his own expence. Many of the 

 plants are ftill undetermined by fyftematic botanifts. Hall. 

 Bibl. But. Kaempf. Opera. 



KiEMPFERIA, in Botany, named by LInnxus in com- 

 memoration of K-EMPFEH, (fee that article,) was feleded 

 for that purpofe with the more propriety, becaufe of the 

 excellent original account and figure given of the plant by 



this writer, in his \A\iMe jlmaenitaks Exoik<s, 901 Linn. 



Gen. 4. Schreb ,-. WiUd. Sp. PI v i. 15. Mart. Mill. 

 Did. V. 3. Rofcoe Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 8. 350. t. 20. 

 f. 10. Dryandr. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. i. 7. Jufl". 64. 

 Lamarck lUuitr. t. i — Clafs and order, MonanJria Mo- 

 nogynia, Nat. Ord. Scitaininea, Linn. Rofcoe. Carinit, 



juir. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth fuperior, of one leaf, tubular, 

 Ihcathing, membranous, fplitting on one fide. Cor. of one 

 petal ; tube about as long as the calyx, cylindrical, ercd ; 

 outer limb in three equal, fpreading, linear, acute, involute 

 fegments ; inner two-lipped, the upper lip of two oblong 

 lobes, lower of one or two broader, rounded, fpreading 

 ones. Slam. Filament one, eieft, oblong, flat, much 

 Jhorter than the limb, extending much above the authcr, 



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and terminating iri two fpreading equal lobes; anther attached 

 by its back to the middle of the filament, of two oblong, 

 nearly marginal, rather diftant lobes, meeting round the 

 ftyle, burlling at their outer edge. Pi/}. Germcn inferior, 

 fmall, roundidi ; flyle thread-lhapcd, embraced by the an- 

 ther ; ftigma cup-fliapped, concave, fringed, projetting a 

 little beyond the anther. Peiic. Capfule roundilh, fome- 

 what triangulai-, of three cells and three valves. ScuU 

 feveral. 



Elf. Ch. Anther two-lobed. Filament extending above 

 the anther, two-lobed at the top. Outer limb of the corolla 

 in three equal, linear, acute lobes ; inner two-lipped. 



1. K. Galanga. Galangale. Linn. Sp. PI. 3. Hort. Cliff. 2. 

 t. 3. Redout. Liliac. t. 144. Sims in dirt. Mag. t. 850. 



(Wanhoin ; Kxmpf. Amoen. Exot. 901.1.902 ) Uppii- 



fegments of the inner limb of the corolla obtufe, flightly 

 thrce-lobcd ; lower ones deeply feparatcd, undulated. Leaves 

 deprelTed, broad-ovate, pale beneath.— Native of the Eall 

 Indies. Kacmpfer met with it in Japan in a cultivated Hate 

 only. With us it is rare ; kept in the ftove, and flowering 

 in July. The root is perennial, tuberous, throwing out 

 elliptical ftalked knobs, like the Peony. Thefe are lleiliy 

 and wiiite within, with a grateful and pungent aromatic fla- 

 vour, which remains long after they are dried. They ar-^ 

 ilill ufcdin the Eaft for their ilomachic and tonic properties, 

 but are laid aflde in European pradtice. Stem none. Leaves 

 feveral, fheathing, fpreading in a depreffed pofition, three or 

 four inches long, and nearly as broad, many-ribbed; dark- 

 green, and fmooth above ; paler, glaucous and downy be- 

 neath. Floivers feveral, radical, feffile, in the centre of 

 the leaves, white, with two purple fpots at the bafe of the 

 lower or front lobes of the inner hmb. We cannot help re- 

 marking the fuperiority of Linnasus's fine engraved plate 

 over any col-ured one that has met our notice. 



2. K. lotiiiie/.i. Round-rooted Kxmpferia. Linn. Sp. PI. 3. 

 Sims in Curt. Mag. t. 920. Woodv. Med. Bot. t. 13^. 

 (K. ionga ; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. v. 3. 37. t. 317. Redout. 

 Lihac. t. 49. Malan-kua ; Rheede Hort. Mai. v. 11. 17. 

 t. 9.) — Upper fegments of the inner limb of the corolla 

 acute, entire ; lower ones deeply fcparated, obovate. 

 Leaves erec"t, elliptic-oblong, acute, coloured beneath. — 

 Native of the Ealt Indies. Mr. Miller is faid to have culti- 

 vated it in 1768, but the plants, now not unfrequent in the 

 ftoves of this country, all probably originated from what 

 fir George Yonge introduced in 1791. The knobs of the 

 ro'jts, rather lefs oblong than thofe of the former, are pun- 

 gent and aromatic. The haves grow upright, and are a foot 

 long, remarkable for the line purple colour of their under 

 tide. The Jio'-^'irs appear early in the fpring_ before the 

 leaves, with a few fheathing green brafteas that grow like- 

 wife from the root. They are fweet-fcented, white, ex- 

 cept the lower lip, which is of a light purple, prettily varie- 

 gated. 



3. K. angujl'ifolia. Narrow-leaved Kxmpferia. Rofcoe 

 Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 8. 351. — Upper fegments of the inner 

 limb of the corolla linear, obtufe ; lower one eniarginate. 

 Leaves lanceohite, pale beneath. — Native of the Eafl Indies,, 

 from whence it was introduced into tlie Kew garden in 1797 

 by fur Jofeph Banks. It flowers in the ftove, about Marcli 

 or April. Mr. Rofcoe examined it in the botanic garden at 

 Liverpool^ and ail our knowledge of this Ipecies is comprized 

 in the above definition. 



4. V^. cvala. Ovate Kxmpferia. Rofcoe, ibid. (Manja- 

 kua; Rheede Hort. Mai. v. 11. 19. t. 10.) — Lower feg- 

 mcntof the inner limb of the' corolla lanceolate, undivided. 

 Leaves ovate. — All our knowledge of this plant is dfiived 

 from the Hortus Malnbaricue, from whence Mr. Rofcoe 



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