in botany, a genus of the pentandria digynia class. The fruit is oval, striated, and hairy. There are four species, and none of them natives of Britain.

BUBONOCELE, or Hernia inguinalis, in surgery, a tumour in the inguen, formed by a prolapsus of the intestines, omentum, or both, through the processes of the peritoneum, and rings of the abdominal muscles. See Surgery.