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SIDERO CAPSA, a small town of Turkey in Europe, 
in Macedon. It adjoins a hilly district, and has furnaces 
for smelting metals; 32 miles east-south-east of Salonichi. 
SIDEROCHITA, a class of crustated ferruginous bodies, 
of a moderately firm and compact texture, composed of 
ferruginous mixed with earthy matter, and formed of re¬ 
peated incrustations, making so many coats or crusts round 
a softer or harder nucleus, or round loose earths, or an aque¬ 
ous fluid. 
SIDERODEMDRUM [iron tree], in Botany, a genus 
of the class titrandria, order monogynia, natural order 
of dumosse, sapotse (Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx: 
perianth cne-leafed, very small, four-toothed, acute, placed 
on the germ. Corolla, one-petalled. Tube cylindrical, curved, 
long. Border four-cleft: segments oblong, obtuse, fl»t, 
reflexed, shorter by half than the tube. Stamina: filaments 
foui', very short, arising below the divisons of the border. 
Anthers oblong, erect. Pistil: germ roundish, inferior, Style 
filiform, length of the tube of the corolla. Stigma oblong, 
obtuse, thickish. Jacqu. Pericarp: berry dicoccous, 
crowned with the calyx, two-celled, with the partition 
contrary. Seeds solitary, on one side convex, wrinkled; 
on the other flat, margined, fastened to the partition.— 
Essential Character. Corolla: one-petalled, salver-shaped. 
Calyx: five-toothed. Berry dicoccous, two-celled. Seeds 
solitary. 
Siderodendrum triflorum.—This is a tall branching tree, 
with ovate-lanceolate, acute, quite entire, shining, petioled, 
opposite leaves, half a foot long. Peduncles axillary, very 
short, often three-flowered. Flowers small, rose-coloured 
on the outside, white within.—Found in the mountain 
woods of Martinico and Montserrat. 
SIDEROMANTIA [SiS^o/xaj/reia, Gr.], in Antiquity, 
a kind of divination performed with a red-hot iron, upon 
which they laid an odd number of straws, and observed what 
figures, bendings, sparklings, &c., they made in burning. 
SIDEROXYLON [iron wood], in Botany, a genus of 
the class pentandria, order monogynia, natural order of 
dumosse, sapotse (Juss.)— Generic Character. Calyx: 
perianth, five-cleft, small, erect, permanent. Corolla: one- 
petalled, wheel-shaped: segments five, roundish, concave, 
erect. Toothlet cusped, serrate at the base of each division 
of the petal, tending inwards. Stamina . filaments five, 
awl-shaped, length of the corolla, alternate with the tooth- 
lets. Anthers oblong, incumbent. Pistil: germ roundish. 
Style awl-shaped, length of the stamens. Stigma simple, 
obtuse. Pericarp: berry roundish, one-celled. Seeds five. 
Sideroxylou decandrum differs in having ten stamens. The 
teeth are wanting in the corolla of Sideroxvlon mite, mela- 
nophlseum, and some others.— Essential Character. Co¬ 
rolla five cleft. Nectary (in most) five-leaved. Stigma 
simple. Berry five-seeded. 
1. Sideroxylon mite.—Unarmed, flowers sessile. The 
flowers have no teeth between the stamens.'—It is a native of 
Africa. 
2. Sideroxylon inerme, or smooth ironwood.—Unarmed; 
leaves perennial, obovate ; peduncles round. At the Cape 
of Good Hope, where this tree is a native, it rises to the 
height of an English apple tree; but in Europe it is rarely 
more than eight or ten feet high. The wood is so heavy as 
to sink in the water, and being very close and hard, the 
name of iron-wood has been given it, and hence the generic 
appellation of Sideroxylon. 
3. Sideroxylon melanophlaeum, or laurel-leaved iron- 
wood._Unarmed, leaves perennial lanceolate, peduncles 
angular. This tree bears a great resemblance to the preced¬ 
ing : it has thick branches like that, but without any streaks 
orwarted dots. The leaves are perennial; and the peduncles 
very short, but not round. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
4. Sideroxylon cymosum. — Unarmed, leaves opposite 
petioled, cymes compound and decompound. This is a 
small shrub, native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
5. Sideroxylon sericeum, or silky ironwood.—Unarmed, 
leaves ovate, tomentose-silky beneath.—Native of New 
South Wales. 
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6. Sideroxylon argenteum, or silvery ironwood.—Un¬ 
armed, leaves ovate, retuse, tomentose; flowers peduncled. 
Native of the Cape of Goo d Hope. 
7. Sideroxylon tomentosum.—Unarmed; leaves oblong, 
acuminate, obtuse, the younger ones tomentose; peduncles 
aggregate, axillary, length of the petiole. A small tree, with 
an erect trunk, covered by an ash-coloured bark. Pe¬ 
duncles axillary, numerous, short, downy, bowing, un¬ 
divided, one-flowered. Flowers small, dirty white. Calyx 
inferior, five-leaved; leaflets imbricate, downy, perma¬ 
nent.—Native of the East Indies, on the tops of mountains: 
flowering during the hot season. 
8. Sideroxylon lycioides, or willow-leaved ironwood.— 
Spiny, leaves deciduous. Native of Canada. 
9. Sideroxylon decandrum.—Spiny; leaves deciduous, 
elliptic. This is a tree with axillary solitary spines and 
alternate leaves. Peduncles axillary, one-flowered, very 
many, a little longer than the petioles. Calyx five-cleft, 
obtuse. Native of South America. 
Propagation and Culture. —These plants being natives 
of warm countries, cannot be preserved in England, unless 
they are placed in a moderate stove. They are [propagated 
by seeds, when these can be procured from abroad. These 
must be sown in pots filled with light rich earth, and 
plunged into a good hot-bed in the spring, in order to get 
the plants forward early in the season. When the plants are 
fit to transplant, they should be each put into a separate 
small pot filled with good earth, and plunged into a fresh 
hot-bed while they are young. In winter they must be 
plunged into the tan-bed in the stove, and treated in the 
same manner as has been directed for tender plants from the 
same countries. 
SIDERS, a small town in the south-west of Switzerland, 
in the Valais, situated on a rivulet; 8 miles east of Sion. 
The environs are fertile. 
SIDESADDLE, s. A woman’s seat on horseback. 
Another with a cradel, 
And with a syde-sadel. Shelton. 
The use of riding in coaches, and of side-saddles, [is] 
since the time of Richard the II. here with us. Hakewill. 
SIDES-MEN, properly called synods-men, or quest-men, 
persons who formerly were in large parishes, appointed to 
assist the church-wardens in inquiring into the manners of 
inordinate livers, and in presenting offenders at visitations. 
SIDESTRAND, or Sidistrond, a parish of England, 
in Norfolk; 3 miles south east of Cromer. 
SIDETAKING, s. Engagement in a faction or party. 
—What furious sidetakings, what plots, what bloodsheds! 
Bp. Hall. 
SI'DEWAYS, or Si'dewise, adv. Laterally; on one 
side. 
The fair blossom hangs the head 
Sideways , as on a dying bed; 
And those pearls of dew she wears, 
Prove to be presaging tears. Milton. 
SIDFORD, a parish of England, in Devonshire, ad¬ 
jacent to Sidmouth. 
SIDI, in Hindoo Mythology, is the name of one of the 
two wives of Ganesa or Pollear, the god of prudence and 
policy. 
SIDI BEN TUBU, a village of Algiers; 30 miles east- 
south-east of Meliana. 
SIDI ESA, a village of Algiers; 30 miles south of 
Boujeiah. 
SIDI GAZI, a village of Anatolia, in Asiatic Turkey; 
4 miles north-east of Kiutaiah. 
SIDI IBRAHIM, a village of Algiers; 30 miles west of 
Tubnah. 
SIDI MEDHAB, a village of Tunis, in Africa; 20 miles 
north of Gabs. 
SIDI SHEHRI, a town of Caramania, in Asiatic Turkey; 
6 miles east of Beishehri. 
SIDIALIEL, a village of Sennaar; 55 miles north of 
Sennaar. 
SI'DING, 
