K A. F 
of the corolla. Plftillums germ rounaifh; ftyle the length 
‘of the tube ; ftigma two-plated, roundiih. Pericarpium : 
capfule roundiih, three-fided, three-celled, three-valved. 
Seeds : feveral. It rarely bears fruit. The germ is feated 
near the root .—EJfential Chara&er. Corolla llx-parted, 
three of the parts larger, fpreading, one two-parted; ftig- 
jna two-plated. 
Species. i. Ktempferia galanga, or galangale: leaves 
ovate, i'efliLe ; fegments of the corolla lanceolate-linear. 
This is an annual, ltemlefs, juicy, plant. Root bulbous, 
palmate, creeping, with ovate fmooth lobes, and awl- 
ihaped thick fimple fibres. Leaves broad-ovate, forming 
a ring next the ground, quite entire, fmooth, with many 
longitudinal grooves, dark green, on fncrt membranace¬ 
ous fubterraneous petioles, embracing the inner ones. 
Flower radical, folitary, fefiile, juicy, very white, with a 
large violet fpot in the middle. The fmell of the whole 
plant is aromatic, pleafant, and permanent; the tafte is 
lharpifh ; the colour of the root white within, purple on 
the outlide ; the quality ftomachic, cephalic, diaphoretic, 
and alexiterial ; but difcarded from European praftice. 
Linnseus’s elegant figure in his Hortus Cliffortianus is from 
a young plant; when more advanced, the leaves are almoft 
round, and not "acuminate ; then alio the root is palmate, 
with ovate lobes growing round it ; the lower fegment of 
the corolla appears alfo in that figure to be bifid, whereas 
it is four-toothed. Native of the Eaft Indies. The roots 
were obtained from India in 1724, by Charles Dubois, 
efq. of Mitcham in Surrey; who communicated them to 
feveral curious perfons in England ; and they have fince 
been f’ent to many in Holland, France, and Germany. 
2. Kaempferia rotunda, or round zedoary : leaves lan¬ 
ceolate, petioled ; fegments of the corolla linear. The fe- 
cond fort has roots fomewhat like thofe of the firft, but 
ihorter, growing in large clufters, covered with an afh-co- 
Joured (kin, but within white ; from the roots arife the 
leaves, which fold over each other at their bafe ; they are 
fix or eight inches long, and three broad in the middle, 
gradually ending in acute points ; the flowers arife imme¬ 
diately from the roots, each having a fpatha at bottom cut 
into two fegments, which clofely embrace the footftnlk ; 
they have fix petals; the three lower, which decline down¬ 
ward, are long and narrow; the two upper are divided fo 
deeply as to appear like a flow'er with four petals, and the 
fide petal is bifid ; they are of mixed colours, blue, purple, 
■white, and red, having a fragrant odour; they flower in 
July and Augulf, but do not produce feeds in England. 
Native of the Eaft Indies. Cultivated by Mr. Miller in 1768. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants, being natives of 
hot countries, will not bear the open air in England, and 
require a warm ftove to preferve them through the winter; 
but, as their leaves decay in the autumn, the plants lliould 
not have too much wet while they are in an inactive ftate, 
If the plants are placed in the bark-ftove, and treated in 
the fame manner as is directed for ginger, (vol. i. p. 480.) 
they W’ill thrive, and produce plenty of flowers every i'uni- 
mer. They are both propagated by parting their roots; 
the beft time for this is in the fpring, juft before they be¬ 
gin to put out their leaves. 
KA'EN, a town of Africa, and capital of a kingdom, 
on the banks of the river Gambia. Lat. 13. o. N. 
KAENDAR', or Carendar, a town of Chorafan in 
Perfia. It was taken by the Mogul Tartars in 1221. It 
is forty miles fouth of Nefa. 
KA'FAR TU'THA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
government of Diarbeicir: thirty-two miles foutli-weft of 
Nifibin, and twelve north-eaft of Rafain. 
KA'FER, a town of Perfia, in the province of Farfiftan : 
forty miles fouth of Schiras. 
KAFFABA', a town of Africa, and capital of a king¬ 
dom of the fame name, in Nigritia. Lat. 11.45. N. Ion. o. 
12 . W. 
KAFTERNBURG, a town of Germany, in the county 
©f Schwartzburg: two miles fouth-eaft of Arnftadt. 
KAFFRA'RIA. See Caffraria, vol. iii. 
Vol. XI. No. 778. 
K A H 58o 
KAFR ERRIZE', a town of Egypt, on the left bank 
of the Nile: eighteen miles fouth of Cairo. 
KAFR-el-RISK', a town of Egypt, on the left bank 
of the Nile: three miles north-eaft of Atfieh. 
KA'GA, a town of Japan, on the north-weft coaft of 
Niphon. Lat. 57. 15. N. Ion. 1 37. 40. E. 
KAGAN', a town of Ruflia, between Aftracan and 
the Cafpian Sea: ten miles fouth of Aftracan. 
KAGALMITZKA'IA, a fortrefs of Ruflia, in the 
country of the Cofacs on the Don: feventy-lix miles ealfc 
of Azoph. 
KAGARON', a town of Auftria: eight miles fouth- 
eaft of Korn Neuburg. 
KAGEROD', a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Skone : twelve miles fouth-eaft of Heliingborg. 
K AG'NAS, a fmall ifland in the gulf of Bothnia. 
Lat. 64. 48. N. Ion. 21. 7. E. 
KAGZEVAN', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the go¬ 
vernment of Ezerum : thirty-fix miles fouth-eaft of Cars, 
and 100 eaft of Erzerum. Lat. 39. 53. N. Ion. 43. 20. E. 
KAHAKAMAN', a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian 
Sea, near the north coaft of Borneo. Lat. 7. 21. N. I011. 
117. 33. E. 
KA'HEC, a town of Perfia, in Segeftan : thirty-feven 
miles louth-weft of Dergafp. 
KAE'DE, a town of Africa, on the north fide of the 
Senegal. Lat. 16. 8. N. Ion. 11. 47.,W. 
KA'HEM, or Ca'jem, a town of Afiatic Turkey, on. 
the Euphrates : fifty miles weft-fouth-weft of Ana, and 
feventy fouth of Kahaba. 
KAIi'GON, a town of Bengal: twenty miles fouth of 
Moorftiedabad. 
KAH'HLAN, a town of Arabia Felix, in the province 
of Yemen : fifty-fix miles eaft of Loheia. 
KAHL, a town of Germany, on a river of the fame 
name, near the Maine: four miles fouth of Hanau. 
KAHL, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Maine four miles fouth of Hanau. 
KAH'LA, a town of Saxony, in the principality of 
Altenburg, on the Saal : thirty-fix miles weft of Alten- 
burg, and eight fouth of Jema. Lat. 50. 48. N. Ion. 11. 
27. E. 
KAH'LER (John), a learned German Lutheran divine 
and profeflor, was born at Wolmar, a village in the land- 
gravate of Hefle-Caflel, in the year 1649. He ftudied fuc- 
ceflively at Marpurg and at Gieflen, and was admitted to 
the degree of M. A. in the latter univerfity.' He gained 
confiderable reputation by introducing the Cartefian phi- 
lofophy into the fchools at Gieflen, and teaching it there 
for iome years. In 1677, he was appointed profeflor ex¬ 
traordinary of metaphyfics at Rinteln, where he after¬ 
wards filled the mathematical chair; to which, in 1683, 
was joined that of theology. On his appointment to the 
profeflTorfhip laft-mentioned, he took his degree of doftor 
of divinity ; and, after having been fix times honoured by 
the office of redlor magnijicus of the univeriity, died in 
1729. He was the author of numerous diflertations on 
philofophical, mathematical, and theological, fubjedts, 
which were publiflied in a colleftive form at Rinteln, in 
1710 and 1711, in 2 vols. 
KAHM. See Cham, vol. iv. 
KAHNONWOL'OHALE, the principal village of the 
Oneida Indians, in which is Oneida Cattle,, about twenty 
miles fouth-of-w'eft from Whitefiowm, and twelve weft of 
Paris. There is but one framed hotife in this village. 
Their habitations are but a fmall improvement upon the 
ancient wigwams ; and are fcattered fparfely throughout 
an enclofure of feveral miles in circumference, within 
which they keep their cattle, horfes, and fwine, and with¬ 
out plant their corn and fow their grain. 
KAHO'KIA. See Cahokia. _ 
KAHO'NE, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Bur- 
fali. Lat. 13. 56. N. Ion. 16. 8. W. 
KAHUN', a town of Perfia, in the province of Kerman : 
thirty-fix miles fouth-weft of Sirgian. 
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