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Female, C.ilyx of four leaves. Corolla none. Piftils 

 ten, italked. Berries as many. Seeds folitary. 



I. S. ^lulir.ofa. Bay loi nhot of the inhabitants of Co- 

 chinchina. C'len k^m xii of the Chinefe. Native of the 

 ■woods of China and CocUinchina. A large tree, with 

 fpreading branches. Leaves alternate, italked, ovate-oblonjr, 

 entire, fmooth. Male as well as female j?o-yifrj- lateral, or 

 fomewhat terminal ; their Jlalks two or three together. 

 Berries fmall, Imooth, blackifh. 



The wood is light, pale, cafily wrought, ufed for pofts 

 and beams in hou'.es. The branches and leaves exude a glu- 

 tinous fluid ; and being bruifed and macerated in water, they 

 make a fort of gum, uled for mixing with plader or llucco, 

 in oi-der to render it more tenacious and durable. A great 

 quantity of thick, white, fatty oil is extratled from the 

 berries, of which the vulgar make candles, rcfembling thofe 

 of tallow or wax, but of a difagreeable fmell. 



Wc cannot fatisfaftorily refer thi:i account to any plant 

 defcribed in botanical works ; and yet the tree fhould feem 

 to be well known in its native country. 



SEBINIKVAR, in Geography, a town of Tranfdvania ; 

 6 miles S. of Weifl'enberg. 



SEBIZIUS, or Sebiscii, in Biography, the name of a 

 family which was dilUnguiflied at Strafburg by the celebrity 

 of the phyficians whom it produced, and who fucccffively 

 adorned the profelTorial chair in that city for the ipace of 

 1 34 years, without interruption, in the perfons of four indi- 

 viduals only. The lirll, fecond, and fourth of thefe pro- 

 filTors were named Melch'wr ; the third, John Albert ; and 

 kll, with the exception of the firft, fucceeded their fathers 

 in the chair. The firft Melchior Sebizius, was the fon of 

 George Sebiziur, a doftor of laws, and counfellor of the 

 duke of Olnitz. Melchior vi'as born in 1539, at Falken- 

 borg, in Silefia, and was at firft intended for the profeflion 

 of the law; but in 1563 he changed his plans, and began 

 the Itudy of medicine. For this purpofe, as was the cuf- 

 lom of the times, he began his travels to different univer- 

 fities : he was at Montpellier in 1566, and three years after- 

 wards he went to Italy ; and fubfeqnently vifiied France, 

 where he took the degree of dodlor at Valence, in Dau- 

 phiny, in Auguft 1571. On his return to Germany, he 

 praftifed his profeffion firft at Hagenau : but having gone 

 to Strafburg in 1574, he determined to fettle there. His 

 talents foon raifed him to the rank of profelTor, and he prac- 

 tifcd with great celebrity until his death, which took place 

 in June 1625, in the eighty-fixth year of his age. 



Sebiztus, Mkixhior, the fon of the preceding, was 

 born at Straft)urg in 157S. He began his education under 

 his father, and is faid to have ftudied in twenty-fcvcn univer- 

 fitics, among which he chofe that of Cafle as the place of 

 his graduation in 1610. So early as the year 1612, his re- 

 putation raifed liini to the profe'lorial chair, which his father 

 refigned, or rath'-r, perhaps, he became his father's colleague 

 at that time. ?Iis increafing reputation obtained him the fa- 

 vour of the emperor Ferdinand \l., who created him a 

 count palatine in 1 630. But no dignities could leduce him 

 from the praftice of his profelFion, or the duties of his 

 chair ; and during the fpace ol Jlxty-t-wo years, while he 

 taught, and was ailedor of tlie faculty at Stralburg, he exa- 

 mined one hundred and fixty-three candidates, and impofed 

 the doO;torial cap on fifty-five phyficians. Enjoying uninter- 

 rupted health until his laft illnefs, never ufing fpcilacles, and 

 fuffering no infirmity except a very flight deafnefs, he lived 

 to the age of ninety-five, and di«d in January 1674. He 

 was the author of numenuis works, cfpeci^lly academical 

 difl'ertations, in which there is more learning tlian originality 

 or difcovery ; whence Haller pronounced him " erudkus 

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vir, parum ufus propriis experimentis." Eloy occupies a 

 page in the detail of the titks of his workn. 



Sebizius, John Albert, fucceeded the former, his fa- 

 ther, in the profi Ifonal chair. He was born at Sirafturg 

 m 1615, and graduated in 1639, after having Ihidied in the 

 univerlities of Bafle, Montpellier, and Pans. In 1652 he- 

 was appointed to the profillorlhip of aiiatomy. He fuc- 

 ceeded his father as phyfician to the city, and was eh-iftcd 

 above twenty times dean of the faculty. He died in Fe- 

 bruary 1685, in the feventieth year of his age. He was 

 the author of fome academical ellays, and ot a volume of 

 " Exercitationes pathologicje," relating to the difeafes of the 

 head and cheft. 



Sebiziu.s, Mklchior, the fon of John Albert, wa» 

 born in 1664. Alter lludyin;; medicine at Paris, he returned 

 to Slraftjurg, and took the degree of doftor ):i 16S8 ; 

 and in 1701 was elected prpfeilor of medicine. He held 

 tliis oificc, however, but tiiiee years, and died in i 704, being 

 at that time redor of the univerfity. See Eloy Diet. Hift. 

 de la Mcdecine. 



SEBNITZ, in Geography, a town of Saxony, in the 

 marggraviate of Meifl'en ; 20 miles E.S.E. of Drefden. 

 N. lat. 50° 59'. E. long. 14° 25'.— Alfo, a river of 

 Saxony, which runs into the PoUenitz ; two miles N. of 

 Schandau. 



SEBOIM, in Ancient Geography, the name of one of the 

 four towns of tiie Pentapolis, winch were corfumcd by fire 

 from heaven, with Sodom, Gomonha, and Adama. Eu- 

 febius and Jerome fpeak of a town of this name wh.icli 

 fubfitted in their time, and which was fituated on the wclleru 

 coall of the Dead fea. Tiie town muil therefore have been 

 rebuilt. 



SEBOLA, in Geography, a town of Portugal, in th,- 

 province of Beira ; 21 iv.des N.N.W. ot Caltcl Brarco. 



SEBOO, or SuBU, a river of Africa, which paHes by 

 the city of Fez, and runs into the Atlantic a little below 

 Marmora. 



SEBORZ, a town of Bohemia, i:i the circle of Boledau j 

 3 miles S.E. of Melnik. 



SEBOU, a fmall iihnd mar the N.E. coaft of Cape 

 Breton. 



SEBRAJEPOUR, a town of Bengal ; 13 miles 

 W.NVV. of Doef.!. — Alfo, a town of Bengal j ij inilsj 

 S.E. of Koonda. 



SEBRIAPA, in Jnc'ieiit Geography, a t( wn of the 

 African Sarmatia, (^n the b.anks of the river Vardanus. 

 Ptokmy. 



SEBRITHITES, a nomc of Egypt, from which king 

 Vaphres fent to Solomon lOOO men for building the lem- 

 pie, according to Eufebius. . 



SEBRUD, in Geography, a river of Porfia, in the pro- 

 vinceof Khorafan, which runs into the Thus, 6 milcj S.E. 

 of Zaweh. 



SEBU. See Sibu. 



SEBU^I, a fed among the ancient Samaritand, whom 

 St. Epiphanius accufes of changing tiie time exprelied in 

 the law, for the celebration of the great annual fcalU of 

 the Jews. 



Serrarius conjefturcs, that they were thus called frum 

 their celebrating the fcaft of the paHover on tlie fovcnth 

 month, called by the Hebrews /■/-,.•, /fTcn/A. Drufius r.itlier 

 takes them to have been denominated from Seiniii, the leader 

 of a fed .-.mong the Samaritans. Scaliger derives the nimc 

 from the Hebrew, /i^urt, nveei, bccaufc of their celebratni|C 

 every fecond day of the fevcn weeks between Eaitcr and 



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