296 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Blume is probably the tree called “Bullet-tree” by the English, and its 
d is know orse-fles It is a tall tree, yielding in summera 
large quantity of milky juice. It appears that under the name of common — 
Boerowe, or tenets -tree, these have been confounded: 1, the Lucuma 
mammosa of Gzrtner (Marmalade tree)—the Mimusops of Schomburgk 
2, the white iieiteonn which is the Dipholis salicifolia of Alph. D. ” he d 
is known in Jamaica as Galimata; 3, the bastard ee or 
which is the Bumelia nigra of Sw warts } and 4, the N 
or Achras Siderorylon of botanists, which yields one of the 
* Jamaica woods. Sapota grows abundantly on slightly ee 
situations. In collecting the milk the trunk is surr 
nd 
as the ber. The milky ‘juice flows out eta a and is oie 
none that were particularly remarkable either for extent of 
affected or severity of action. In one, that of the 9th of January, 
eatest extent of surface, and greatest pace of action was m 
its principal force seems ‘to have ane expended in the more souther 
portions of our State, and in the immediate vicinity of those ¥ volcanic — 
vents found at different localities upon the Colorado Desert. It is mani- 
fest, however, that this shock and those which preceded it on the 
va the 8th, had sree origin to the west of our scant, as the times 
. Mths cased check of greatest extent, on the 2d of ee exte 
over an area of about 200 miles, but was marked by | no particular se 
verity or injury except that of fright to those who experienced it. . 
= le number that can be authenticated as omnis during 188", 
amounts to seventeen, being greater than the number recorded in 1859 
- is the maximum to which we shall probably be subjected in this State. 
From the | Sandwich Islands we ents no news of earthquakes save | 
th is here inserted: “A very severe shock of earthquake was felt at 
e on the 24th of. February, the most severe that - 
there have had for many yea’ 
arrival of the whaling fleet paca the rolges=: ~ oe 
of these phenomena, as 
is, that papier 
regions dvng the year = ee 
a es 
action — 
and 1856, sco it would seem probable from our records that this number alt 
