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furnished with a hard woody shell. The pulp which surrounds the 
seeds is even more succulent and much more aromatic than in the 
cacao fruit, and furnishes excellent cooling drinks and preserves. 
he native country of the Cupuagii is certainly the Amazons region 
and. probably the Lower Amazons. I have found the tree in a 
wild state in the woods between Braganga and Ourem 
uch more frequent in a wild state is an allied species, the 
Cur uahy (Theobroma subincanum, Mart.), the flowers and fruits of 
which are like those of the upuagi in miniature. is species is 
very common in the woods of ‘terra firme’ in the Lower Amazons. 
. Its fruits serve the same purposes as those of the 
Cupuaca. : 
According to Prof. Trail, the name Cupua-i means “small cupua, 
e Cupt-agi was noticed by Edwards saree up ne river 
Amazon, 1847, p. 66) between Para and_ Vigia :—“ We strolled 
into the woods, and returned with a number 2 the fruits rapiled 
cupuassu. These are of the size and shape of a cocoa-nut in the 
delightful drink is made, much like lemonade. The producing tree 
is common in the forest, and of great size and beauty. 
Bates noticed the Cupui-i and other species of Theobroma near 
gg 1 pa (The Naturalist on the river Amazons, 1863, vol. ii, 
49) :—* I was much struck with the variety of trees with large 
za diversely-shaped fruits growing out of the trunk and branches, 
some within a few inches of the ground like the cacao. Most of 
them are called by the natives Cup, and the trees are of incon- 
siderable height. One of them called Cupti-ai bears a fruit of 
elliptical shape and of a dingy earthen colour six or seven inches 
long, the shell of which is woody and t 1in, and contains a small 
number of seeds loosely enveloped in a juicy pulp of very pleasant 
flavour. The fruits hang like clayey ants’ ee from the branches.” 
Santa-Anna Nery (The Land of the Amazons, 1901, p. 92) 
mentions “ the Capfi-assti, which serves to make jams, chocblate, 
and a liqueur.” 
Glaziou in his “ Liste des plantes du Brésil central” (Bull. $ 
Bot. France, vol lii., 1905, Mém. 3, p. 56) records five species “of 
Theobroma as cultivated at the Oe de Sio Christovio, Rio-de- 
Janeiro, including 7’. bicolor (Cupuassti), T. grandiflorum (Cupuasst) 
and 7’, subincanum (Cupuai). 
A note on the gee appeared in Kew Bull. 1898, 104, in 
which it was stated that “there are fruits of 7. martiana ae t 
. 
Kew Museum from R. Spruce, grag tae ys in- 
species described by Martius and Bernoulli respectively being very 
imperfectly known. There appears to be some confusion as to the 
identity of T. subincanum, Mart., with 7. ; esol 
on the one hand, and 7. ferrugineum, Bersosl 5 om on the other. 
K. Schumann (Mart. FI. ite vol. ae Burt ine 77) reduces 
Lerregineite 
a 
T. obovatum to T. subincan 
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