The data of the middle of the 17th Century confine 
the range of puscolulo and naranjilla to the Provinces of 
Popayadn and Quito. Those of the middle of the 18th 
Century quoted above are restricted to naranjilla; they 
place its area of cultivation to the east, yet it still falls 
within the equatorial belt. But the references to be con- 
sidered below indicate that cultivated Solanum quitoense 
(or some other species mistaken for it) had migrated from 
the original focus, both to the north and to the south. 
In the year 1701, Fr. Alonso de Zamora, writing on 
the plants of the New Kingdom of Grenada, stated: 
‘There are growing in the hot parts of the country some 
trees of the stature of lemon trees, called dulos. These 
give a fruit like small oranges and with the same color 
as oranges; their skin is very thin, and they are very 
agreeably scented, moderately sour and with numerous 
seeds inside a soft pulp. This fruit, diluted, is, according 
to Doctor Lugo, very wise physician who had been in 
this New Kingdom, a healthy cordial for those sick with 
typhus (tabardillo) and other fevers. Sauces made with 
this fruit are the most seasoned that the culinary art has 
discovered’’ (Zamora, 1701, 41: Zamora, 1980, 40). The 
Gongorist style of that time did not contribute towards 
accuracy of description. In this case, the name /u/o seems 
to have been borrowed from the western part of New 
Grenada, but the quotation might equally well be attri- 
buted to Solanum Topiro (see below) or other species, 
because it refers the plant to the ‘‘hot parts of the coun- 
try.’ Some records indicate that in the Guaviare River 
basin there is a lulo with a fruit larger than that of the 
» Since Solanum quitoense does not normally grow well in hot areas, 
and since the plant in the foregoing description was said to have spiny 
leaves, it is possible that this naranjilla is referable to a new species, 
Solanum georgicum, described from the same region by Schultes. 
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