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SIAN, Scio, or Cio, a town of Africa, in Melinda. 



SIANCAS, a town of South America, in the pro- 

 vince of Tucuman ; 30 miles E.S-E. of St. Salvador de 

 Jugui. 



SIANDUPADA, a town of Hindooltan, in Myfore ; 

 13 miles S.W. of Bangalore. 



SIANELLY, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore ; 13 

 miles S.W. of Bangalore. 



SIANG, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 

 Quang-fi. N. lat. 23°58'. E. long. 109° o'. 



SIANG-CHAN, a town of China, of the third rank, 

 in Tchc-kiang ; 2^ miles S.E. of Ning-po. 



SIANG-HIAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Hou-quang ; 40 miles S.W. of Tchang-tcha. 



SIANG-TAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Chan-fi ; 20 miles S.E. of Tfing. 



SIANG-YANG, a town of Corea ; 28 miles N N.W. 

 of San-pou. 



SiANG-YANCi, a city of China, of the firlt rank, in 

 Hou-quang, on the river Han. N. lat. 32° 5'. E. long. 

 Ill" 39'. 



SIANG-YN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Hou-quang, on the Heng river ; 27 miles N.N.W. of 

 Tcheng-tcha. 



SIANKE, or Synke, m Natural Hiftory, a name given 

 by the people of fome pnrts of the Eall Indies to the caryo- 

 phyllus, or clove-fpice. The people of the Moluccas, ac- 

 cording to Garcias, call it chanqu;, which is only a fmall 

 difference of pronunciation. The Turks and Perfians call 

 the fame Ipice calafur. 



SIAO, in Geography, a town of China, of the third 

 rank, in Kiang-nan ; 22 mile'; W. of Pefu. 



SiAO, an ifland in the Ealt Indian fea, about 30 miles m 

 circuit, which belongs to the fultan of Ternate. The 

 Dutch maintain in this ifland a corporal, a few foldiers, and 

 a fchool-mait-er for the inftruftion of the children of the 

 natives. It abounds with provifions. N. lat. 2° 44'. E. 

 long. 125° 5'. 



SIAO-CHAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Tche-kiang ; 1 7 miles N.W. of Chao-king. 



SIAO-HE-CHAN, a fmall ifland near the coaft of 

 China. N. lat. 37° 54'. E. long. 120" 34'. 



SIAO-HO-TCHAN, a town of Chincfe Tartarj'. N. 

 lat. 41° 43'. E. loner. 1 21° 42'. 



SIAO-NON-HOTUN, a town of Chinefe Tartary. 

 N. lat. 41^ 24'. E. long. 126^ 50'. 



SIAO-PI-HOTUN, a town of Corea. N. lat. 40° 24'. 

 E. long. 125- 26'. 



SIAO-TEIN, a river of China, which runs into the 

 Eaftei-n fea, N. lat. 37° 21'. E. long. 118^ 44'. 



SIARA, a fmall town of BrafiC and capital of a dif- 

 trift or captaincy of the fame name, fo called from a river 

 which rifes in the mountains, and difcliarges itfelf into the 

 ocean in S. lat. 5° 30'. The captaincy is fmail, not being 

 above 54 miles in compafs. It has two fortrefles, one on 

 the north, joining to the town of Siara, and fituated on a 

 fmall hill on the right fide of the haven, which is fo (hallow 

 as to admit only fmall vcflels ; and the other, called Fort 

 St. Luke, fituated on the coail, at the mouth of a fmall 

 river, navigable only by barks. This diltrid abounds in 



ng. 39° 46'. 



SIARDEHUI, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic ; 

 8 miles N.E. of Udegherry. • 

 SIARMAN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ma- 



zanderan, on the Cafpian fea; 12 miles E.S.E. of Ferra' 

 bad, or Farabat ; which fee. 



SIAS, a river of Ruffia, which runs into lake Ladoga^ 

 near Sialkoi. 



SIASKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Peterfburg, near lake Ladoga; 24 miles N.E. of Nova 

 Ladoga. 



SIATGONG, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 20 

 miles S. of Bahar. 



SIATON, a town on the fouth coaft of the ifland of 

 Negroes. N. lat. 9- 21'. E. long. 123° 3'. 



SIB, a town of Arabia, in the province of Mafcat ; 30 

 miles W.N.W. of Mafcat. 



SIBABA, a fmall ifland in the Eaft Indian fea, near 

 the fouth coall of Mindanao. N. lat. fi' 36'. E. long. 

 122° 25'. 



SIB./E, or SoBll, called alfo Iba or Saba, in Andenl 

 Geography, 3 people of India, on this fide of the Ganges, 

 and one of the firft nations that encountered Alexander on 

 the banks of the Acefmes. 



SIBALD ds Wirt, in Geography. See Falkland 

 IJlands. 



SIBALDES, a clufter of iflands near the coaft of Pata- 

 gonia. S. lat. 50" 53'. W. long. 59° 35'. 



SIBATTA, a town of Japan, m the ifland of Niphon ; 

 15 miles S.E. of Nambu. 



SIBAU. See Sebou. 



SIBB, a diftricl of the Perfian empire, in the province of 

 Mekran, governed by a chief, who reiidcs in a fmall town 

 of the fame name. It confilts of a very cxteniive plain, 

 through the centre of which fl 'ws a river, nearly dry, in 

 the bed of which are fcveral groves of date-trees ; but the 

 country, generally fpeaking, is quite barren. 



SIBBA. See Sebea. 



SIBBALDIA, in Botany, fo named by Linnaeus, in 

 memory of fir Robert Sibbald, knt., M.D., author of 

 Scotia Illujlrata, a foho volume, publiflied at Edinburgh in 

 1684, a confiderable part of which is dedicated to plants, 

 and in which the firft ipecies of the prefent genus is, for the 

 firft time, dchneated. — Linn. Gen. 155. Schreb. 208. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. v. I. 1567. Ma-t. Mill. Dia. V. 4. Sm. 

 Fl. Brit. 345. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. 199. Purfli v. i. 

 211. Jull. 337. Lamarck lUuttr. t. 221. Girtn. t. 73. 

 — Clafs and order, Pentandria Pentagynia, Nat. Ord. Sen- 

 t'tcofe, Linn. Rofaces, ^\x^. 



Gen. Ch. Cal Perianth inferior, of one leaf, cut half 

 way down into ten fegments ; its bafe ereifl ; fegments 

 fpreading, half-lanceolate, equal in length, permanent, the 

 intermediate ones narroweft. Cor. Petals five, ovate, in- 

 ferted into the calyx. Stam. Filaments five, capillar)', 

 ftiorter than the corolla, inferted into the calyx ; anthers 

 Imall, obtufe. Pift. Germens five, ovate, very flwrt, in 

 the bottom of the calyx ; ftyles from the middle of one frde 

 of each germen, the length of the ftamens ; ftigmas capi- 

 tate. Peric. none, the clofed calyx (heltering the Steds, 

 which are five, fomewhat oblong. 



Obi. The piltib were found by Linnoeus to be fome- 

 times, though very rarely, doubled in number, on the fame 

 plant with other flowers that had only five. They appear 

 to vary from five to ten. 



Eii. Ch. Calyx in ten fegments. Petals five, ftanding 

 on the calyx. Styles from the fide of each germen. Seeds 

 five, in the bottom of the calyx. 



I. S. procumbens. Procumbent Sibbaldia. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 406. Fl. Lapp. ed. 2. 82. Fl. Brit. n. i. Engl. 

 Bot. t. 897. Lightf. Scot. 175. Fl. Dan. t. 32. (Fra- 

 garise fylveilri affinis planta, flore luteo ; Sibb. Scot. p. 2. 



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