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autumn ; in warm Cummers, however, the third fort will 
perfeft feeds, if it (lands in a warm (heltered fituation. 
BUB.O'JSJIUM, f in botany. See Inula. 
BXJBONOCE'IiK, f. the groin, and a 
tumour.] A hernia, ,or rupture.of the groin. See tJie 
article Medicine. 
BUBRO'MA,/! [( 3 oe?, an ox, and/ 3 ^oi^ca, food.] Base 
Cedar. In botany, a genus of the clafs polyadelphia, 
order dodecandria, natural order cokimniferas. Tlie ge¬ 
neric characters are—Calyx : perianthium three-leaved ; 
leaflets ovate, concave, acute, fpreading, deciduous, two 
a little larger than the reft. Corolla: petals five ; claws 
large, narrow at the bafe, vaulted, helmet-concave, in¬ 
flex at the tip, beaked, etnarginate, converging, inferted 
into the nectary at the bafe ; borders fernibifid, with li¬ 
near fpreading fegments. NeCtary, a belUfhaped pitcher, 
divided into five equal, lanceolate, (harp, minute, up¬ 
right, fegments, fpreading a little at the tip. Stamina : 
filaments five, filiform, upright, bent outwards at the 
tip, outwardly fattened to the neCtary, alternate with its 
fegments, and a little fhorter, trifid at the tip ; the divi¬ 
fions very fbort. Antheras, on each filament three, two 
at the lip on each fide, the third a little lower, each pla¬ 
ced on one of the divifions of the filaments ; the cells mar¬ 
gined. Piftillum : germ fuperior, roundifti, hifpid ; ftv'le 
filiform, almofl the length of the ftamens ; lligma fimple. 
Pericarpium: capfule fubglobular, woody, nuiricated all 
round with club-fttaped tubercles, terminated by a five- 
rayed leafy ftar, punched with a tenfold row of little tranf- 
verfe dots, five-celled, valvelels, not opening; partitions 
woody-fibrous; cells covered on the infide with a thin 
membrane. Seeds: very many, angular, fixed in a dou¬ 
ble row to a central, fubglobular, receptacle .—EJJcntial 
Character. Calyx, tluee-leaved ; petals five, arched, femi- 
bifid ; antherae on each filament three; ftignia fimple; cap¬ 
fule muricate, ending in a five-rayed ftar, punched with 
holes, five-celled, valvelels, not opening. 
There is only one fpecies, called bubroma guazuma, or 
elm-leaved bubroma, or theobroma, or baftard cedar. 
This tree rifes to the height of forty or fifty feet in the 
Weft Indies, having a trunk as large as a middle-fized 
man’s body, covered with a dark-brown furrowed bark, 
fending out many branches towards the top, which fpread 
out wide every way ; leaves oblong, heart-ftiaped, alter¬ 
nate, near four inches long, and two broad near the bafe, 
ending in acute points, ferrate, having a ftrong midrib, 
and ieveral tranlverfe veins, 1 of a bright green on their 
upper, and pale on their under, furface, on fliort petioles; 
the flowers are in axillary cinders; they are fmall, and of a 
yellow colour. Linnaeus obferves, that the branches have 
a nap fcattered over them ; that they have no bttdsq that 
the foliation is flightly involute, with the ferratures plaited 
and imbricate ; that the leaves are bluntly and unequally 
ferrate, three-nerved, rugged, veined, fliining, hanging 
down, having the appearance of thofe of the nettle ; that 
the ftipules are oppofite, fubulate-lanceolate, approxima¬ 
ting to the branches, with a melliferous pore on the out- 
ftde; that the petioles are round, only one-fixth of the 
length of the leaves, thicker towards the leaf; that the 
flowers are in corymbs, like thofe of ayenia. Thedefcrip- 
tion of the flower by Swartz differs from that given above 
from Schreber. The calyx, according to him, is four- 
leaved, (in Houftoun’s figure it is three-leaved, Juflieu 
makes it five-parted ;) the leaflets bent down ; the petals 
dufky yellow, five-nerved, pubefeent, with lanceolate awns 
or briftles inferted into the divifions of the petals, and 
longer than them, upright, and purple. It deeps with 
the leaves hanging quite down, whilft the petioles remain 
entirely ftiff and ftraight. From the fimilitude of this tree 
to the elm, it is called by the French orme d'Amerique, and 
hois d'orme. In Jamaica it is known by the name of bafe 
cedar, and is peculiar to the low lands there, forming a 
very agreeable fhade for the cattle, and fupplying them 
with food in dry weather, when all the herbage is burned 
.up or exhaufted. The feeds are very mucilaginous, but 
BUG 
olherwife agreeable to the palate. The wood is light, and 
fo ealily wrought, that it is generally iifed by the coach- 
makers in Jamaica in all the fide pieces: it is a!fo fre¬ 
quently cut into (laves for calks. A decoCtion of the in¬ 
ner bark is very glutinous, and very like that of the elm ; 
it is (aid to be excellent in the elephantia.fis, a diforder to 
which the negroes are much fubjeCt. This tree was cul¬ 
tivated by Mr. Miller in 1739. It flowers here in Auguft 
and September. 
Propagation and Culture. The feed fttould be fown on a 
good hot-bed in the fpring, and, when the plants are fit to 
remove, they fltould be each planted in a feparate fmall 
pot, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners’ bark, obferv- 
ing to (hade them from the fun till they have taken new 
root; then they (hould be treated in the fame way as the 
coffee-tree, keeping them always in the tan-bed in the ftove. 
BU'BRY, a town of France, in the department of Mor- 
bi'han, and chief place of a canton, in the dillriCt of Hen- 
nebon : ten miles north-north-eaft of Hemiebon. 
BUG (George), a learned antiquarian, defeended of an 
ancient family, and born in Lincolnfttire. In the reign of 
James 1 . he was made one of the gentlemen of his majefty’s 
privy chamber, and knighted ; he was alfo appointed maf- 
ter of the revels. His writings are, 1. The Life and Reign 
of Richard III. in five books. This vva.s properly a de¬ 
fence of that king, whom lie would not allow to have had 
any deformity in body or mine}. 2. The third Univerfity 
of England ; or, a treatife of the foundations of all the 
colleges, ancient fchools of privilege, and of houfies of 
learning and liberal arts, within and about the city of Lon¬ 
don: with a brief report of the fciences, arts, and facul¬ 
ties, therein profeffed, ftudied, and praCtifed. He alfo 
wrote a treatife of the Art of Revels. 
BUCANEE’R, J. One who dries and fmokes flefh or 
fifh, after the manner of the Indians. The name was par¬ 
ticularly given to the firft French fettlers on the ifland of 
St. Domingo, whole employment confided in hunting bulls 
and wild boars, in order to fell their hides and flefit. It 
was alfo applied to an union of thefe people with a defpe- 
rate gang of Engliftt, who joined together to make depre¬ 
dations on the Spaniards of America. The Spaniards had 
not been long in pollellion of the Weft Indies and the con¬ 
tinent of America, when other nations, el’pecially the Eng- 
lifti and French, began to follow them there. But, though 
the Spaniards were unable to people fitch extenfive coun¬ 
tries themfelves, they were refolved that no others (hould 
do it for them; and therefore made a mod cruel war on 
all thofe of any other nation who attempted to fettle in 
any of the Antilles or Caribbee iflands. The French, 
however, acquired fome footing in the ifland of St. Chrif- 
topher’s; but, by the time they began to fubfide into a 
regular form of government, the Spaniards found means 
to dillodge them. Upon this the fugitives, confidering 
at how great a diftance they were from their mother-coun¬ 
try, and how near they were to Hifpaniola or St. Domingo, 
the northern parts of which were then uninhabited, and 
full of fwine and black cattle, immediately refolved to 
take poflellfion of that country, in conjunction with feve- 
ral other adventurers of their own and the Engliftt nation; 
elpecially as the Dutch, who now began to appear in thefe 
feas, promifed to fupply them with all kinds of neceffa- 
ries, in exchange for the hides and tallow they (hould 
procure by hunting. Thefe people obtained the name of 
bucaneers , from their cuftom of bucanning their beef and 
pork in order to keep it for fale, or for their own con- 
fumption. But fome of them foon grew tired of this way 
of life, and took to planting ; while others chofe to turn 
pirates, trufting to find among thofe who remained on 
(hore a quick (ale for all the plunder they could make at 
fea. The colony now began to thrive at a great rate, and 
confided of four claffes : bucaneers, freebooters or pirates, 
planters, and indented fervants, who generally remained 
with the bucaneers and planters. And thefe four orders 
compofed what they now called the body of adventurers. 
The bucaneers lived in huts having an outlet jufl large 
enough 
