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cepting the university, churches, and convents, entirely 
confilts of (hops and tradefinen’s houfes. It is the fee of 
a Greek archbifhop : 420 miles ealt of Cracow, and 565 
fouth of Petersburg. Lat, 50. 32. N. Ion. 30. 56. E. 
KIEU'SK, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: forty 
miles north-north-weft of Mogla. 
KIEV'SKOE, a government of Ruftia, bounded on the 
north and north-eaft by the government of Tchernigov, 
©n the fouth-eaft by the government of Ekaterinoflav, on 
the fouth-weft and north-well by Poland ; about 148 miles 
in length, and 60 in breadth ; fituated for the rnoft part on 
the left fide of the Dnieper. This government is part of 
Little Ruftia, and inhabited by Cofacs, who, in the year 
1562, entered .into an alliance with Poland, and in 1674 
became a part of Ruftia. The country is one continued 
plain, exceedingly fertile, and producing abundance of 
grain and pafture, honey, flax, tobacco, &c. 
KIEZVEN'SKOE, a town of Ruftia, in the government 
of Perm : eighty miles north of Perm. 
KIFAN'TA, a town of Bootan: fixty-four miles north 
of Dinagepour. 
KIFTER, an ifland in the Eaftern-Indian Sea, about 
twenty miles in circumference, near the north coaft of 
the ifland of Timor. Lat. 8. o. S. Ion. 126. 20. E. 
KIF'FI (Saint), a fraall ifland in the Grecian Archipe¬ 
lago. Lat. 38. 43. N. Ion. 24. 10. E. 
KIF'TELEK, a town of Hungary: eighteen miles 
north-weft of Zegedin. 
KIGEL'GA, one of the Fox-islands, which fee. 
Lat. 54. o. N. Ion. 194. 28. E. 
KIGGELA'RIA,_/i [fo named by Linnaeus from Francis 
Kiggelar, of Holland ; author of Hortus Beaumontianus, 
1690, and Obfervations on Commelin’s Hort. Amftl. 1697.] 
In botany, a genus of the clafs dioecia, order decandria, 
natural order of columniferae, (euphorbias, JuJf ) The 
generic characters are—I. Male. Calyx: perianth one- 
leafcd, five-parted, concave; divifions lanceolate. Co¬ 
rolla : petals five, lanceolate, concave, rather longer than 
the calyx, and forming with it a pitcher-ftiaped figure ; 
neftary, glandules obtufely three-lobed, middle lobe 
largelt, deprefled, coloured, each growing to the claw of 
each petal. Stamina: filaments ten, very finall; anthera; 
oblong, fhorter than the calyx, gaping at the tips with 
two holes. II. Female. Calyx and corolla as in the 
male. Piftillum: germ roundifti; ftyles five, Ample; (tig- 
mas obtufe. Pericarpium : capfule leathery, globofe, 
rough, one-eelled, five-valved. Seeds about eight, round¬ 
ifti, cornered on one fide, covered by a proper coat. 
The fruftification of this genus fhown on the Botany 
Plate X. fig. 22. —EJfential Chara&er. Male : calyx five- 
parted ; corolla five-petalled ; glands five, three-lobed ; 
antherae perforated at the tip. Female: calyx and corolla 
as in the male; ftyles five; capfules one-celled, five-valved, 
many-feeded. 
Kiggelaria Africans, a Angle fpecies. It is a tree ex¬ 
ceeding the height of a man, with the trunk and branches 
grey. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, petioled, lrnooth, ltiff 
and ftraight, fnarply ferrate, acute, fpreading ; (fee Bo¬ 
tany Plate VII. fig. 3. vol. iii.) petioles roundifti without 
ftipules, one eighth of the length of the leaves; at the 
back of the leaf, where the larger lateral veflels come out, 
in the finus or axil, there is a flight pubefcence with a 
cavity, which forms a prominence on the upper furface 
of the leaf. On the male plant, one or two branched pe¬ 
duncles bear feveral flowers, nodding, in a panicle ; the 
petals are white, and the neflaries yellow. The female 
produces a Angle flower on a Ample peduncle. The fruit 
is a globular rugged one-celled berried capfule, with a 
thick coriaceous rind, pubefcent on the outAde, and rug¬ 
ged, with granular atoms ; within, by the drying of the 
pulp, it is formed into cells adapted to the feeds, and 
when ripe it is five-valved ; pulp thin, ccllular-membra- 
naceous, rufefeent. There is no receptacle, but the feeds 
are immerfed in the pulp ; they are about eight in num¬ 
ber, rather large, convex on one fide, varioufly angular 
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on the other, rufefeent. This plant grows naturally at 
the Cape of Good Hope, where it rifes to be a tree of 
middling ftature ; but, as it will not live in the open air 
here, it cannot be expefted to grow to a great magnitude 
in England. There were plants of it in the Cheliea-gar- 
den upwards of ten feet high, with ftrong woody ftems 
and pretty large heads; the branches have a finooth bark, 
which is Arft green, but afterwards changes to a purplifh 
colour; the leaves are about three inches long and one 
broad, of a light green colour, and fawed on their edges, 
(landing upon (hort footftalks alternately. The flowers 
come out in cinders from the fide of the branches, and 
hang downwards; they are of an herbaceous white co¬ 
lour, and appear in May, at which time the plants are 
thinly garniflied with leaves, for mod of the old leaves 
drop juft before the new ones appear. The male flowers 
fall away foon after their farina is (hed, but the herma¬ 
phrodite (or female) flowers are fucceeded by globular 
fruit about the fize of common red cherries ; the cover 
of thefe is very rough, and of a thick confluence, open¬ 
ing in five valves at the top, having one cell filled with 
fmall angular feeds. Theie fruits have grown to their 
full fize in the Chelfea-garden, but the feeds have rarely 
come to maturity here. It was cultivated here in 1690, 
in the royal garden at Hampton-court; but it appears 
from Ray’s Letters (p. 171.) that it was cultivated in 
1683. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants were not very' 
common in Europe fome years pad, being very difficult 
to propagate, unlefs by feeds, which fome plants both in 
Holland and England have lately produced, fo that they 
are now much more plentiful than they were in both coun¬ 
tries; for, when any of the young branches are laid down, 
they are two years before they put out roots, and fcarcely 
one in five will then have any roots; nor do the cuttings 
fucceed better, for not one in twenty of them will take 
root, when planted with the utmoft care; the belt time 
to plant the cuttings is in the fpring, juft before the plants 
begin to (hoot; thefe fliould be planted in pots filled with 
a loft loamy earth, and plunged into a very moderate 
hot-bed, covering them clofe with a glafs, to exclude the 
air from them, and (hade them every day from the fun ; 
they fliould have very little water after their firft plant¬ 
ing. If any of them grow, they fliould be planted into 
feparate fmall pots, filled with loamy earth, and may be 
expofed to the air in a (heltered fituation till autumn, 
when they mull be removed into the green-houfe, and 
treated in the fame manner as orange-trees. 
KIGH'LEY. See Keighley. 
KIGIGI'NA, a fortrefs of Ruflia, in the government 
of Upha : 160 miles eaft of Upha. 
KI'GNA, a river of Hungary, which runs into the 
Drave eighteen miles weft of Ziget. 
KIJA'SA, a mountain of Thibet: twenty-five miles 
fouth-eaft of Giti. 
KIKAC'CO, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Congo : thirty miles fouth-eaft of Pango. 
KIKA'LA, a town of Sweden, in South Finland : forty 
miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Abo. 
KIKAL'GA, one of the Fox Iflands, in the North 
Pacific Ocean. Lat. 54. N. Ion. 194. 28. E. 
KIKH, a town of Turkifti Armenia: thirty-three miles 
weft-fouth-weft of Mouflr. 
KIKIA'NY, one of the fmall Japanefe Iflands. Lat. 
29. 40. N. Ion. 132. 25. E. 
KI'KOV, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niplion s. 
fifteen miles fouth-eaft of Iwata. 
KIKUKO'VI, a town of Ruftia, in the government of 
Tobolflc, on the Tchulim: fixty-four miles north-well of 
Atchinfkx 
KI'KUTS, a-town of Japan, in the ifland of Ximo : 
fifteen miles north-north-eaft of Udo. 
KIL, a town of Sweden, in the province of Warme- 
land : twelve miles fouth of Chriitinehamn. 
KI'LAN, a province of the fouth-eaftern part of Great 
Bukhara, 
