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of Sapota, which has received, in honour of the first observer, 
r. Muller, at Paramaribo, the name Sapota Mulleri, Bl. A full 
description, with a drawing of the new plant, is given in the Dutch 
Journel De Volksvlijt, uitgegeven door de vereeniging boor 
_ Volksvlijt, te Amsterdam, 1857, Nos. 6 and 7, p. 279. | 
“ An illustration is given of the fruit of the Lueuma mammosa [to 
which also the name Bolletrie is applied] to show the difference 
between the fruit of our gutta percha Bullet tree and that of the 
Lucuma. Several other botanical characters have led to the con- 
clusion that our Bullet tree is not a species of Mimasops, this genus 
being indigenous to tropical Asia, as the Sapota is to the New World. 
The Bullet tree, or gutta percha Sapota, is very common in groups 
on the hilly country in Surinam, above the alluvial plains. To 
collect the milky juice an incision is made in the trunk, seven feet 
above the ground, and this is enclosed by a ring of clay, which 
serves at the same time as a reservoir. The juice flows out of the 
stratum between the liber and the alburnum in profusion ; there is 
no necessity to cut the tree down, as was universally done at the 
commencement of the collection of gutta percha in the Indian 
Archipelago. ° ‘ : 
A specimen of the gutta percha of Surinam, shown at the 
exchange at Amsterdam, was declared to be of first-rate quality. 
Another specimen was tried in the gutta percha manufactory at 
Amsterdam. The result was, that it was declared to be of first- 
rate quality and that its strength was proved. It appears, however, 
that the gutta percha requires some time before it is thoroughly 
solid and hardened.” 
In the description of a specimen of the wood of the Buruch, 
Bully, or Bullet tree forwarded with other products from British 
Guiana to the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1855, it is stated in the 
catalogue that the leaves, branches, and trunk produce a whitish 
milk. Samples both of the milk and inspissated juice were sent 
from British Guiana to the London International Exhibition of 
1862, also to the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867. In_ the 
preface to the catalogue of the latter contribution from British 
Guiana, p. Ixvii., Mr. D. Melville, of, Berbice, makes the follow- 
then hardly satisfactory; but at the Exhibition of 1862, Sir 
William Holmes actively interested himself in bringing the 
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