BASTARDS is also an appellation given to a kind of faction or troop of banditti, who rose in Guienne, about the beginning of the 14th century, and, joining with some English parties, ravaged the country, and set fire to the city of Xaintes. Mezeray supposes them to have consisted of the natural sons of the nobility of Guienne, who, being excluded the right of inheriting from their fathers, put themselves at the head of robbers and plunderers to maintain themselves. * BASTARD Flower-fence. See ADENANTHERA.—The flowers of this plant bruised and steeped in breast-milk are a gentle anodyne; for which purpose they are often given in the West Indies to quiet very young children. The leaves are used instead of fena in Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands. In Jamaica, the plant is called fena.