Mr Forbes's Physical Notices of the Bay of Naples. 75 



which yields the so much celebrated Japan lacquer or var- 

 nish, as well as that of Siam and Tonquin ; although Loure- 

 iro represents the varnish of the two last countries as being 

 the produce of a different tree. Mr Jack adds, that under 

 the article Sanga in the Encyclopedie Botanique, part of 

 Rumphius's account is given, but by a singular mistake the 

 tree is conjectured to be a Hernandia ; and that, in the first 

 volume of the same work, the Arbor Vernicis is made TermU 

 nalia vernix ; an error which has not been corrected by later 

 authors. 



Rhus and Mauria differ in having a sessile, naked fruit, 

 and foliaceous cotyledons. — I take this opportunity of re- 

 marking that my Rhus juglandifoUa, which I cannot distin- 

 guish from Kaempfer's Sitz or Sitzdsju, owes its specific name 

 to a hint thrown out by that author. As there exists a tree 

 so called by Willdenow, Professor Decandolle has changed the 

 name to R. vernicifera. The coincidence of the Burmese 

 name of Melanori'hoea usitata with that of the Japan Varnish 

 tree is remarkable. 



Art. IX. — Physical Noticed of the Bay of Naples. By 

 James D. Forbes, Esq. Communicated by the Author. 



No. VI. — Oil the District of the Bay of Baja. 



NuUus in orbe sinus Baiis prjelucet amcenis. 



HoR. EphU i.\. 

 Mons novus ; ille supercilium, frontemque favilla 

 Incanura ostentans, ambustis cautibus, sequor 

 Subjectum, slrageinque suam, nioesta arva, minaci 

 Despicit imperio, soloque in littoie regnat. 



Gray. • 



>y E were interrupted in our regular topographical description 

 of the localities in the Bay of Naples, by the discussion into 

 which we entered in the last number of these Notices, upon 

 the curious subject of the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli. 



• These lines are taken from a beautiful Latin fragment on the Monte 

 Nuovo by our English bard, written with his usual happiness of expression, 

 and containing some passages not unworthy of the days of the classics. It 

 may be found in his life by Mason, Letter 27. 



