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th^ fame truTs in tlic rcJucibU itate, ^i tliat worn by tlie 

 male, and when tltaiiguliittd, it tlcmaiuls the fame means 

 for rciUiction. If the operation is roiiiired, it is to be per- 

 formed in the following manner. An incifion is to be made 

 from the upper p^rt of the tumour to the lower, and along 

 its middle, and «hen tl:e fl;in is thus divided, a fafcia is 

 txpofcd uhicli covers the fac, which being next cut through, 

 the fdC becomes expofed, and is to be carefully opened, and 

 the llric^ure felt for. If it is fituatcd at t!ie rinjr of the ob- 

 lique mufcle, tiie piobe-pointed billory mull be palTed be- 

 tween the fac and the ring, and the ring cut upward ; but if 

 tlie Ibiclure is at the mouth of the fac, the billory is to be 

 palTed within the fac, and the flricilure is to be divided at 

 the anterior and middle part of the mouth of the hernial 

 fac. 



BUDROMA, in Bo/any, (from $ov; an ox, and ^fv.ia 

 food.) Schreb. Illrt. Willdcn. ijSp. Martyn's Miller. 

 (Guazuma Julf. 276. Ventenat >. 196. La Marck, Bofc.) 

 Clafs and order polyadelphia tlotUeandna, Nat. Ord. co- 

 lummfert, Linn. Malvaceae Jufl". 



Gen. Char. Cal. -perianth three-leaved ; leaves ovate, 

 concave, acute, refltcled, deciduous ; two a little larger. 

 Cor. Petals five, concave or hollowed, in the Oiape of a 

 pouch at their bafc, lengthened at their fummit into a long 

 bitid awn, infertcd into the nectary at the bafe. Neffary a 

 bell-niapcd pitcher, divided into five equal, lanceolate, (harp, 

 minute, upright fegments, fpreading a little at the tip. 

 SuTn. Filaments five, filiform, upright, bent outwards at 

 the lip, outwardly fattened to the neftary, and alternate 

 with its fegments, trifid at the tip ; anthers three on each 

 filament, two at the tip on each fide, the third a little lower, 

 each placed on one of the divifions of the filament ; the cells 

 margined. Pi/l. germ fiiperior, roundilli, hifpid ; ftyle fili- 

 form, about the length of the ilamens ; ftigma fimple, 

 bearded, but net divided. Pericaif, capfule, (Drupe, La 

 Marck) fubglobular, woody, muricated all round with 

 club-fiiapcd tubercles, punched with a tenfold feries of fmall 

 tranfverfe hcles, five-celled, valvelefs, not opening ; parti- 

 tions woody-fibrous ; ctlis covered on the infide with a thin 

 membrane. SfcJs numerous, angular, ahnoft reniform, at- 

 tached in a double row in each cell to the common central 

 receptacle. 



Obf. Juffieu, Ventenat, La Marck and Bofc. call the five 

 fegments of the neftary, barren filaments, and dcfcribe its 

 lower part as a tube formed by the union of all their ten fila- 

 ments. Schreber fays, that the capfule is terminated by a 

 five-rayed leafy ilar ; but there is no appearance of fuch an 

 appendage in La Marck's figure, nor is it mentioned by any 

 other author. According to Svvartz, the rind is perforated 

 like a fieve, referring, doubtlefs, to Schreber's ten-fold 

 feries of lit'le tranfverfe hoks, improperly tranflated by Mr. 

 Martyn, dots, through which, we prtfume, the ripe feeds 

 efcape ; and, if we rightly underllaud Schreber's rather ob- 

 fcurc defcrption, tlicie is one for each feed. 



EIT. Char. Perianth three-leaved. Petals five, lengthened 

 into a bifid awn. Anlhen three on each filament. St'igma fim- 

 ple. Capfule muricate, perforated with holes, five-celled, 

 .valvelefs. 



Species, B. Gua'^uma, elm-leaved Bubroma, or ballard 

 cedar. (Theobroma Guazuma, Linn. hort. Chff. 379. &c. 

 Reicl.ard, Swartz obi. 291. Brown Jam. 306. 1.) La 

 Marck, PI. 6.37. A tree forty or fifty feet high. Trunk 

 nearly the fize of a man's body, covered with a dark-brown, 

 furrowed bark. Branches extending nearly horizontally ; 

 fmaller ones leafy, tomtntofe. Leaves alternate, ovate, acu- 

 niinale, a little heart-diaped, obtulely and unequally ferrated, 

 gloffy, brigiit green oa their upper, and pale on their under 



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fiirfacc, with a ftrong midrib, and feveral tranfverfe veins ; 

 P'tioles toinentofe, a little thicker than the leaf; ftipules 

 linear-awl. fhaped, approximating to the branches. Racemes 

 corymbofe, axillary. Flowers fmall, pale yellovt' ; awn 

 piirplidi. A native of the Eall and Weft Indies. In the 

 Weil Indies it is planted in rows to make a fhndy walk. For 

 this purpofe, it is pollarded at the rainy fcafon, when nine 

 or ten feet high ; within a month of which opcr-ation, it is 

 covered with foliage, and forms a head more than fix feet in 

 diameter. -As it is liable to fuffcr by the wind, its upper 

 'tranches are lopped every five or fix years. Cattle arc fed 

 on its leaves and fruit in dry feafons, when other forage is 

 fcarce. Its feeds are very mucilaginous, but agreeable to 

 the palate. The wood is light and eafily wrought, and is 

 employed in coach panncls. A decoction of the inner bark 

 is very glutinous, and very like that of the elm. It is faid 

 to be excellent in the elephantiafk, a diforder to which the 

 negroes are much ful jetl. 



Propagation and Ciilliire.— This tree was cultivated in 

 England by Mr. Miller, in 1739. La Marck's defcription 

 was formed from a living plant which flowered in the Hove 

 of the royal garden at Paris, about 1788. The feeds mull 

 be fown in a hot bed in the fpring, and when the plants are 

 fit to be removed, (hould be put into fcparate pots, and 

 treated in the fame way as the coffee- tree. 



BUBRY, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of Morbihan, and diftritl of Lorient, 10 miles 

 N.N.E. of Hennebond. 



BUC, George, in Biography, an Englifli antiquarian, 

 was the defcendant of an ancient family, and was born in 

 Lincolnlhire towards the clofe of the i6th century. In the 

 reign of James I. he was made one of the gentlemen of his 

 Majelly's privy chamber, and knighted. The work by 

 which he was chiefly dillinguiihed was his " L,ife and Reign 

 of Richard III. in five books," in which he takes great 

 pains to vindicate that prince's character. But in this 

 attempt he evinces more zeal than judgment, and his work 

 is a pedantic, rhetorical panegyric, rather than a judicious 

 and impartial hiftoi-y. It is printed in bifliop Kennet's col- 

 leftion of the Enghfh Hiilorians, London 1706 and 1719. 

 He was alfo the author of " The Third L^niverfitie of Eng- 

 land ; or, a Treatife of the Foundations of all the Colleges, 

 ancient Schools of Privilege, and of Ploufes of Learning 

 and Liberal Arts, within and about the mod famous Citie of 

 London, &:c." written in 1712, with a view of fhewing 

 that all the arts and fciencts are taught in the metropolis, 

 and annexed to the edition of Stow's Chronicle by E. 

 Howes, London, 1651. He compofcd like wife a treatife 

 of " The Art of Revels." Camden reprcfents him as a 

 perfon of excellent learning, and acknowledges obligations 

 to him. Biog. Brit. 



BUC A, in Conchology, av old name for bucciiium. 

 BucA, in Ancient Geograp>hy, a town of Italy, in the 

 country of the Frentani, fituiite on the fca-coaft. 



BUCANECEPHALUM, in Botany. Piuk. See S.ir- 

 RACEN1.1. 



BUCAO, in Oinilhology, a name given in the Philippine 

 iflands to a fpecies of fcreech-owl, wh'ch is the fize of a 

 peacock. It is very common in thofe iflands, but wholly- 

 unknown to us. It is a very beautiful bird, but makes a 

 hidtous noifein the night. 



BUCARDITES, or Bucardita, in Natural Hi/lory, a 

 name given by many authors to a (lone in fome degree re- 

 fembling the figure of an ox's heart. It is ufually of the 

 fubllance of the coarfer Hones, and is no other than a quanti- 

 ty of the matter of fuch Hone received while moiil into the 

 cavity of a large coclile, and thence afluming the figure of 

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