438 
in all these words, acide, chloride, bromide, &c., and : 
the analogy of their we po by adopting the F: 
phy, we desert the strict principles of our own language for no suffi- ~ 
cient reason. Oxydum, chloridum, bromid um, (Latin is well coowutl 
and oxyd, soa bromid, acid, are properly the English forms of | 
these words.’ Acrid Aaceide rabid, deci splendid, fluid, stupid, are 
other analogous words in English. 
The reasons here awe - have influenced us in adopting the or- 
sy a used in this Journ 
. Gutta Percha; by Drea Oxtey, Esq., A.B., Senior Surgeon 
of ihe Settlement of Prince of Wales’ aver , Singapore and Malacca, 
(Journ. Ind. Archip., Singapore, No. 1 . 22,)—The ae 
percha tree, or soci tuban as it ought more peisy to be call ? 
the percha pearing a spurious article,—belongs to the natural | 
Sapotew, but differs so much from all described genera, havi 
both, that I am disposed to think it is entitled to rank 
I shall therefore endeavor toj give its general charact 
noi of naming it to some’ more competent botani 
e tree is of large size, 26; frpen sixty to seventy feet i in 
from two to three feet in di eter. Its general appearance 
the genus Durio, or well yn Doorian, so muc 
most superficial observer. pil under surface of the leaf; 
the axils, supported on short Doves pedicle s, and numef 
ieatrematies of the branches. Calyx, inferiot, persistent, c 
a brown color, divided into six,sepals which are arranged 
series olla, monopetalous hypogenous, divided like the cal! 
six acuminate segments. ns, inserted in the throat of t! 
ina renibe alters variable ‘in homber, but, to. the best of m 
number is 
natec _ a long simple style, six celled, ae 
ed. Leaves about four inches in length, perfect, 
entire, of a coriaceous Becsistence, alternate, obovate lanceolate, uppet 
surface of a pale green, under surface covered with close, short, reddish 
brown bei Midri rib anaes a little, cigs. a small aro or beak. { 
ary how difficult it is to obtain specimens 0 
of this tree, and this is probably the reason of its not having been 
recognized and es by some of the many botanists who 
visited these parts 
