Chinaroot

( Bot.) See SMILACEE. China-rose, n. ( Bot. ) See HIBISCUS. China Sea, that portion of the Pacific Ocean which has China and Siam on the W., the island of Formosa on the N., the Philippines on the E., and Borneo on the S.; and which forms the great gulfs of Tonquin and Siam. Chinaub', (anc. Acesines,) in Hindostan, the largest river of the Punjab. Rising in the Him a lay as, in abt. Lat. 32° 10' N., Lon. 37° 50 E., it takes at first a N.W. and afterwards a S.W. course between the Ravee ( Hy draotes), and Jhylum ( Hydaspes ), uniting with the latter river below Ihung, and with the Sutlej ( Hyp has is ) near Ooch; after which it joins the Indus, in Lat. 29°, Lon. 70° 30′.