m. K L E 
KLECZK, a town of the duchy of Warfaw : twelve 
miles weft-north-weft of Gncfna. 
KLEE, a river of Germany, which runs into the Lahn 
two miles weft of Gieften. 
KLEE'BERG, or Clee'berg, a town of Upper Hefle: 
four miles weft-north-welt of Butzbacli, and lix fouth of 
Wetzlar. 
KLEIN, a town of the duchy of Stiria : twelve miles 
eaft-fo\ith-eaft of Landfberg. 
KLEI'NENBERG, a town of Weftphalia, in the bi- 
lhopric of Paderborn : eight miles north-weft of War¬ 
burg. 
KLEFNERN, a village in the county of Waldeck, 
with a mineral fpring: four miles fouth of Waldeck. 
KLEINHO'FIA, "or Kleinho'via, f [fo named by 
Linnaeus from Klein/wjf, who cultivated a botanic garden 
in Java.] In botany, a genus of the clafs gynandria, or¬ 
der decandria; (clafs dodecandria, order monogynia, Schre- 
ber ;) natural order of columniferae, (malvaceac, JuJf.) 
The generic characters are—Calyx : perianth five-leaved; 
leaflets oblong, nearly equal ; the lower one rather ftiort- 
er, deciduous. Corolla: petals five, lanceolate, feflile, ra¬ 
ther longer than the calyx; the upper one fiiorter, wider, 
and arch-truncated. NeCtary central; feated on a column 
of the length of the calyx, furrounded at the bale by 
glandules, afeending at the tip, bell-lhaped, very final], 
half-five-cleft; divifions recurved. Stamina: filaments 
fifteen, very fmall; three of them fitting on each dlvifion 
of the nectary; two of them being terminal; the third ra¬ 
ther lower; antherse twin. Piftillum: germ in the hollow 
of the nectary, ovate, five-cornered; ftyle fimple; itigma 
fotoewhat cremated. Pericarpium : capfule five-lobed, 
five-cornered, ten-valved; inflated. Seeds folitary, round- 
i(h, fubechinated. —EJfential Ckarafter. Calyx five-leaved ; 
corolla five-petalled; neftary bell-ihaped, peduncled, lta- 
miniferous ; capfule inflated, five-lobed. 
Kleinhofia hofpita, a Angle fpecies. Linnaeus de- 
feribes it as a tree, with alternate petioled, cordate, acu¬ 
minate, fcarcely-ferrate, naked leaves; flowers in fome 
degree allied to thofe of Ayenia, and the fruit of Car- 
diolpermum ; from the receptacle of the flower arifes 
a declining column, afeending at top beyond the tip of 
the uppermoft petal, bearing a very fmall bell-fliaped nec¬ 
tary, within which are the ftamens and piltil. According 
to Gsertner, the calyx is fimple and five-parted, (not five¬ 
leaved ;) the five petals inferted into the Item of the germ ; 
the ftamens united into a bell-fliaped five-cleft pitcher, 
with the anthers by threes on each divifion. Seeds foli¬ 
tary, fubglobular, muricated with ftiort diftant little pric¬ 
kles, with a mamillary tubercle at the bafe, and an um¬ 
bilical procefs (landing out very much on the inner fide, 
cinereous brown or blackifh ; according to Rumphius, 
red ; or, as Cavanilles has it, at firft green, purple, and 
then red. Cavanilles fays that the trunk is the height of 
a common apple-tree, thick, incurved, and knobbed ; the 
branches fmooth, as is the whole plant. Flowers in ra¬ 
cemes, fmall, numerous, bright purple; calyx five-leaved. 
The globule of genitals is icarcely fo big as a muftard- 
feed ; the characters therefore are not examined without 
difficulty, efpecially in a dry fpecimen. Rumphius ob- 
ferves, that the leaves when bruifed have a fmell like vio¬ 
lets, efpecially the young ones. Native of Java, Amboy- 
na, and the Philippine Iflands, where it flowers frequently 
in the year, and has commonly fruit on it, but molt abun¬ 
dantly in the month of October. 
KLEI'NIA, f. in botany. See Cacalia and Eupa- 
TORIUM. 
KLEIN'MAUTH, a town of the duchy of Stiria, on 
the Muehra : three miles north of Luttenberg. _ 
KLE[N'SDORF, a town of Bavaria, in th,e bifhopric of 
Bamberg: five miles weft of Bamberg. 
KLEIST (Edward Chriftian), a celebrated German 
poet, and a foldier of diftinguiffied bravery, was born at 
Ztblin, in Pomerania, in 1715. At nine years of age he 
was lent to purfue his ftudies at Cron in Poland ; and he 
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afterwards ftudied at Dantzic and Konigfberg. Having 
finiffied his ftudies, he went to vifit his relations in Den¬ 
mark, who invited him to fettle there ; and, having in vain 
endeavoured to obtain preferment in the law, at twenty- 
one years of age he accepted of a poll: in the Daniffi army, 
lie then applied himfelf to the ftudy of all the fciences 
that have a relation to military affairs, with the fame affi- 
duity as he had before ftudied civil law. In 1740, at the 
beginning of the reign of Frederic the Great, king of 
Pruffia, Mr. de Kleift went to Berlin, and was prefented 
to his majefty, who made him lieutenant of his brother 
prince Plenry’s regiment; and he was in all the campaigns 
which diftinguiftied the five firft years of the king of 
Pruflia’s reign. In 1749 he obtained the poll of captain ; 
and in that year publiffied his poem entitled “ Spring.” 
Before the breaking out of the next war, the king chofe 
him, with fome other officers at Potfdam, companion to 
the young prince Frederic-William of Pruffia, and to eat 
at his table. In the firft compaign, in 1756, he was no¬ 
minated major of Haufen’s regiment; which being in gar- 
rifon at Leipfic, he had time to finifh feveral new poems. 
After the battle of Rofbach, the king gave him, by an or¬ 
der in his own hand-writing, the infpection of the great 
hofpitnl eftablifhed at Leipfic. And on this occafion his 
humanity was celebrated by the fick and wounded of both 
parties, and his difintereftednefs was equally admired by 
all the inhabitants of that city. In 175?, prince Henry 
coming to Leipfic, Kleift defired to ferve in his army 
with the regiment of Haufen, which was readily granted. 
Opportunities of diftinguiftiing himfelf could not be 
wanting under that great officer, and he always commu¬ 
nicated his courage to the battalion under his command. 
He alfo ferved that prince at the beginning of the cam¬ 
paign of 1759, when he was with him in Franconia, and 
in all the expeditions of that army, till lie was detached 
with the troops under general de Fink to join the king’s 
army. On tne iath of Auguft was fought the bloody 
battle of Kunnerfdorf, in which he fell. He attacked the 
flank of the Ruffians, and aflifted in gaining three batte¬ 
ries. In tliefe bloody attacks he received twelve contu- 
fions ; and, the two firft fingers of his right hand being- 
wounded, he was forced to hold his fword in the left. 
His poft of major obliged him to remain behind the ranks; 
but he no fooner perceived the commander of the batta¬ 
lion wounded and carried away, than he inftantly put 
himfelf at the head of his troop. He led his battalion in 
the mid ft of the terrible fire of the enemy’s artillery, 
againft the fourth battery. He called up the colours of 
the regiment; and, taking an enfign by the arm, led him 
on. Here he received a ball in his left arm ; when, be¬ 
ing no longer able to hold his fword in his left hand, he 
took it again in the right, and held it with tlve two laft 
fingers and his thumb. He ftill pufhed forward, and was 
within thirty lteps of the battery, when his right leg was 
ffiattered by the wadding of one of the great guns ; and 
he fell from his horfe, crying to his men, “ My boys, 
don’t abandon your king.” By the affiftance of thofe who 
furrounded him, he endeavoured twice to remount his horfe; 
but his ftrength forfook him, and he fainted. He tvas 
then carried behind the line ; where a furgeon, attempt¬ 
ing to drefs his wounds, was ftiot dead. The Cofacs, ar¬ 
riving foon after, ftripped Kleift naked, and threw him 
into a miry place; where fome Ruffian huflars found him 
in the night, and laid him upon fome ftraw near the fire 
of the grand guard, covered him with a cloak, put a bat 
on his head, and gave him fome bread and water. Soon 
after the Cofacs returned, and took all that the generous 
huflars had given him. Thus he again lay naked on the 
earth ; and in that cruel fituation continued till noon, 
when he was known by a Ruffian officer, who caufed him 
to be conveyed in a waggon to Frankfort on the Oder ; 
where he arrived in the evening, in a very weak ftate, and 
was inftantly put into the hands of the furgeons. But 
the fraftured bones feparating, broke an artery, and he 
died by the lofs of blood. The city of Frankfort being 
then 
