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BUBROMA, in botany, a genus of the 

 Polyadelphia Decandria class and 

 order. Nat. order Columniferae. Malva- 

 ceae, Jussieu. Essential character : calyx 

 three-leaved ; petals five, arched, semi- 

 bifid ; anthers on each filament three ; 

 stigma simple; capsule muricate, ending 

 in a five-rayed star punched with holes, 

 five-celled, valveless, not opening. There 

 is but one species, viz. B.guazuma, elm- 

 leaved bubroma or theobroma, or bastard 

 cedar. This tree rises to the height of 

 forty or fifty feet in the West Indies, hav- 

 ing 1 a trunk as large as the size of a man's 

 body, covered with a dark brown bark, 

 .sending out many branches towards the 

 top, \vbich extend wide every way ; leaves 

 oblong, heart-shaped, alternate, nearly 

 four inches long, and two broad near the 

 base, ending in acute points; the branches 

 have a nap .scattered over them ; they 

 have no buds ; the flowers are in co- 

 rymbs. In Jamaica it is known by the 

 nurae of bastard cedar, and is peculiar to 

 the low lands there, forming an agreeable 

 shade for the cattle, and supplying them 

 with food in dry weather, when all the 

 herbage is burned up or exhausted. The 

 wood is light and so easily wrought, that 

 it is generally used by coachmakers in 

 all the side pieces ; it is also cut into 

 staves for casks 



BUCCANEERS, those who dry and 

 smoke flesh or fish after the manner of 

 the Americans. This name is particularly 

 given to the French inhabitants of the 

 island of St. Domingo, whose whole em- 

 ployment is to hrnt bulls or wild boars, in 

 order to sell the hides of the former and 

 the flesh of the latter. 



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The buccaneers are of two sorts ; the 

 buccaneers ox-hunters, or rather hunters 

 of bulls and cows; and the buccaneers 

 boar hunters, who are simply called hun- 

 ters : though it seems that such a name be 

 less proper to them than to the former ; 

 since the latter smoke and dry the flesh 

 of wild boars, which is properly called 

 buccaneering, whereas the former pre- 

 pare only the hides, which is done with- 

 out buccaneering. 



Buccaneering is a term taken from Buc- 

 can, the place where they smoke their 

 flesh or fish, after the manner of the sa- 

 vages, on a grate or hurdle made of Bra- 

 sil wood, placed in the smoke a consider- 

 able distance from the fire ; this place is 

 a hut of about twenty-five or thirty feet 

 in circumference, all surrounded and co- 

 vered with palmetto leaves. 



BUCCINATOR, in anatomy; a muscle 

 on each side of the face, common to the 

 lips and cheeks. See ANATOMY. 



BUCCINUM, in natural history, a ge- 

 nus of the Vermes Testacea. Animal a 

 limax ; shell univalve, spiral, gibbous ; 

 aperture ovate, terminating in a short ca- 

 nal leaning to the right, with a retuse 

 beak or projection ; pillar-lip, expanded. 

 There are between two and three hun- 

 dred species, separated into eight divi- 

 sions; viz. A. inflated, rounded, thin, sub- 

 diaphonous, and brittle. B. with a short 

 exserted beak ; lip unarmed outwardly. 

 C.lip prickly outwardly on the hind part; 

 in other respects resembling division B. 

 D. pillar-lip, dilated and thickene.-I E. 

 pillar-lip appearing as if worn flat p. 

 smooth, am' not among the former divi- 

 sions. G. angular, and not included among 



