lulo belonged to a local language. In the Kolorado lan- 
guage, formerly spoken on the coast and western Andean 
slope of Ecuador, the root du refers to ‘‘red’’ and ‘‘yel- 
low’’ and, as a natural extension, ‘‘ripeness’’ (Jijén y 
Caamanio, 1941, [I, 249). The repetition /u/o should in- 
dicate, as stated by Buchwald, ‘‘red, red’’ (ibid., 250). 
There is a river in that same region, the Rio Lulo, a 
tributary of the Palenque (Wolf, 1892, 188). 
In Kamsa and its filial tongue Koayker, the particle 
sha (thsa, za, scha, cha) is equivalent to ‘‘thing good, ad- 
mirable’’ and serves to classify the fleshy objects (Jijén 
y Caamano, 1940, I, 102-108, 105, 107, 109, 117-120, 
122-124; 157, 160, 191-192). In Kamsa, be means 
‘‘round’’ (ibid., 118, 122). 
The origin of the word naranjilla is established in the 
references quoted below. In view of the lack of botani- 
cal collections, some of the data on several so-called 
varieties of naranjilla (Gattoni, 1935, 7) may refer per- 
haps to different species. A few years ago, Schultes and 
Cuatrecasas described a variety of Solanum quitoense * 
occurring north of the equator and characterized by the 
presence of spines on the leaves. 
In 1652, the naturalist Bernabé Cobo, perhaps making 
use of information sent to him by Jesuit correspondents, 
described under different regional names one or more 
species of Solanum with edible fruits, native of the re- 
gions of Popayadn and Quito. Living in Lima and Mex- 
ico, Padre Cobo was never able to visit these two regions. 
The descriptions are alike, except in a few details which 
are easily detected by reading the references in double 
column as follows: 
* Solanum quitoense Lamarck var. septentrionale Schultes & Cuatre- 
casas in Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harvard Univ. 16 (1953) 100. 
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