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to scent clothes ; the smell is very strong, and in general 

 disagreeable to Europeans. The plant, but especially the 

 seed, is esteemed to be diuretic, emmenagogue, and carmina- 

 tive ; the seeds are an ingredient in Theriaca. It is propa- 

 gated by seeds, which should be sown on a bed of light 

 sandy earth, either early in the autumn, or in April ; and if 

 the season prove warm and dry, the ground should be shaded 

 in the heat of the day, and frequently refreshed with water, 

 which is a sure method to bring up the plants : but where 

 this is not practised, the seeds often fail, or remain long in 

 the ground. When the plants come up, they will require no 

 other care but to be kept clean from weeds, till the beginning 

 of October, when they should be carefully taken up, and 

 planted in a warm border of dry ground. A few of them 

 should be put into pots, that they may be sheltered under a 

 frame in winter ; for in severe frosts, those which are exposed 

 to the open air are frequently killed, though in moderate 

 winters they will live abroad without covering. 



2. Bubon Galbanum ; Lovage-leaved Bubon. Leaflets 

 ovate, wedge form, acute, finely serrated ; umbels few : seeds 

 smooth ; stem shrubby, glaucous. It rises with an upright 

 stalk to the height of eight or ten feet. It flowers in August, 

 but has not produced seed in England. When any part of 

 the plant is broken, there issues out a little thin milk of a 

 cream colour, which has a strong scent of Galbanum. The 

 drug called Galbanum is obtained from this, partly by spon- 

 taneous exudation from the stem, but more commonly by 

 incision in the stalk a little above the root, from which it 

 immediately flows, and soon becomes sufficiently concreted 

 for gathering. This gum-resin, medically considered, may 

 be said to hold a middle place between assafoetida and ammo- 

 niacum, but is far less disagreeable than the former. It has 

 the credit of being highly useful in hysterical cases, and of 

 promoting and correcting various secretions and uterine eva- 

 cuations. Externally, it has been applied to expedite the 

 suppuration of indolent tumors, and especially as a warm 

 stimulating plaster. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope ; 

 and to propagate it, the seeds should be sown in pots, filled 

 with light loamy earth, as soon as they arrive ; if it happen 

 towards autumn, they should be plunged into a bed of tan- 

 ner's bark, where the heat is gone, and screened from frost in 

 winter. In the spring the plants will come up, and by the 

 middle of April be fit to remove, when they should be gently 

 shaken out of the pots, taking care not to tear off their roots, 

 and replanted each into a separate small pot, filled with the 

 same earth as before ; then plunge the pots into the tan again, 

 and water them to settle the earth to the roots of the plants, 

 and shade them from the sun in the day-time, until they have 

 taken new root ; after this they must be inured gradually to 

 bear the open air ; into which they should be removed in 

 June, and placed with other exotic plants in a sheltered 

 situation, where they may remain till autumn, when they 

 must be removed into the green-house, and placed where 

 they may enjoy as much of the sun and air as possible, but 

 defended from frost. They should have but little water given 

 them in winter, for much wet is very injurious to them : in 

 summer, when they are exposed to the open air, they must 

 be often watered in dry weather ; but too much watering 

 must be guarded against, as that will rot their roots. 



3. Bubon Gummiferum ; Gum-bearing Bubon. Leaflets 

 gashed, acuminate, the lower ones broader ; seeds smooth ; 

 stem shrubby. It rises with a woody stalk about two feet 

 high, with leaves at each joint, branching out like those of 

 the preceding species, but the leaflets are narrow, and in- 

 dented like those of Bastard Hemlock. The stalk is terminated 

 by a large umbel of small white flowers. It is a native of the 



Cape of Good Hope, and must be propagated in the same man- 

 ner as the preceding species ; which see. In hot summers it 

 will perfect its seeds, if it stand in a warm sheltered situation- 



4. Bubon lligidus; Stiff-leaved Bubon, Leaflets linear. 

 This is a low perennial plant, having short stiff leaves, 

 which are very narrow. Stem about a foot and a half high, 

 cylindrical, striated, but little branched ; flowers yellow, 

 in loose umbels. Native of Sicily. 



5. Bubon Laevigatum ; Smooth Bubon. Leaflets lanceo- 

 late, very obtusely and obscurely crenated ; seeds smooth ; 

 stem shrubby. Native of the Cape of Good Hope : it 

 flowers from December to February. 



Bubroma ; a genus of the class Polyadelphia, order Dode- 

 candria. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth three- 

 leaved ; leaflets ovate, concave, acute, spreading, deciduous, 

 two a little larger than the rest. Corolla : petals five ; claws 

 large, narrow at the base, vaulted, helmet-concave, inflex at 

 the tip, beaked, emarginatc, converging, inserted into the 

 nectary at the base ; borders semibifid, with linear spreading 

 segments ; nectary, a bell-shaped pitcher, divided into five, 

 equal, lanceolate-sharp, minute, upright segments, spreading 

 a little at the tip. Stamina: filamenta five, filiform, upright, 

 bent outwards at the tip, outwardly fastened to the nectary, 

 alternate with its segments and a little shorter, trifid at the tip; 

 the divisions very short ; antherae, on each filamenta three, 

 two at the tip on each side, the third a little lower, each 

 placed on one of the divisions of the filamenta ; the cells 

 margined. Pistil : germen superior, roundish, hispid ; style 

 filiform, almost the length of the stamina ; stigma simple. 

 Pericarp : capsule subglobular, woody, muricated all round 

 with club-shaped tubercles, terminated by a five-rayed leafy 

 star, punched with a tenfold row of little transverse dots, 

 five-celled, valveless, not opening; partitions woody, fibrous ; 

 cells covered on the inside with a thin membrane. Seed: very 

 many, angular, fixed in a double row to a central subglo- 

 bular receptacle. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix ; three- 

 leaved. Petals: five, arched, semibifid. Antherx: on each 

 filament three. Stigma: simple. Capsule: muricate, end- 

 ing in a five-rayed star, punched with holes, five-celled, 

 vulveless, not opening. The only known species is, 



1 . Bubroma Guazuma ; Elm-leaved Bubroma, or Bastard 

 Cedar. This tree rises to the height of forty or fifty feet in 

 the West Indies ; having a trunk as large as a middling-sized 

 man's body, covered with a dark-brown furrowed bark, send- 

 ing out many branches towards the top, which spread out 

 wide every way. According to Linneus, this tree sleeps 

 with the leaves hanging quite down, whilst the petioles 

 remain entirely stiff and straight. From its similitude to the 

 Elm, the French call it orme d'Amerique, and bois d'orme. 

 In Jamaica it is known by the name of Bastard Cedar, and 

 is peculiar to the low lands there, forming a very agreeable 

 shade for the cattle, and supplying them with food in dry 

 seasons, when all the herbage is burned up, or exhausted. 

 The seeds are very mucilaginous, but otherwise agreeable to 

 the palate. The wood is light, and so easily wrought, that 

 it is generally used by coach-makers in Jamaica in all the 

 side-pieces. It is also frequently cut into staves for casks. 

 A decoction of the inner bark is very glutinous, and very 

 like that of the Elm ; it is said to be excellent in the ele- 

 phantiasis, a disorder to which the poor negroes are greatly 

 subject. It flowers here in August and September. To 

 propagate this tree, sow the seed on a good hot-bed in the 

 spring, and when the plants are fit to remove, plant them 

 each in a separate small pot, and plunge them into a hot- 

 bed of tanner's bark, observing to shade them from the 

 sun till they have taken new root ; they then should be 



