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was of excellent quality, and fetched high prices in Europe. This 
branch of industry was principally in the hands of the numerous 
Basque settlers ; but these being for the greatest part royalists, they 
suffered very much during the war of independence. Many were 
killed, others left the country or were ruined, and in consequence, the 
cultivation of indigo declined rapidly. It was afterwards taken up by 
men without skill and experience, who prepared so inferior an article, 
that Caracas indigo now has lost all credit in commerce. But the two 
species of Indigofera continue to grow independently, and may be con- 
sidered as naturalized. /. subulata, Vahl, is the only truly indigenous 
species in the valley of Caracas. 
I). Plants cultivated on account of their floicer-luds. 
Brassica oleracea, L. Botrytis caulijlora, De Cand. Svst. Nat. ii. 586. 
'Coliflor.' 
(Hamulus Lupulns, L. c Flor de Cerveza.' — The cultivation has 
been tried, but as yet without any result, because not in the right 
way.) 
E. Plants cultivated on account of their fruits. 
Anona squamosa, L. ' Anon.' A. muricata, L. ' Guanabano' (in 
Unmna 'Catuche'). A. reticulata, L. ■ Riiioii' (i.e. kidney, on ac- 
count of the shape of the fruit). A. Cher'uaolia, Lam. ' Chirimoya.' 
A. Manirote, H.B.K. (?) < Catigiiire.' 
None of the Anonas are indigenous in the valley of Caracas. They 
arc even rarely cultivated as they require a warmer climate. Anona 
Gherimolia appears to be the hardiest. The word ' Anon' is Caribbean. 
Guanabano' is from the same language, and seems to be a compound 
w °rd, ' Yuana-anon,' or ' spiny anon.' The name ' Catuche,' used in 
Cumana, reminds of ' Cape Catoche,' in Yucatan ; there is also near 
Ci| racas a small river « Catuche,' and in Georgia (U.S.) a river ' Cbat- 
tahouchee.' All these names show a striking likeness, and belong pro- 
bably belong to the same root. The introduction of the Guanabano 
luto Venezuela seems to be of a comparatively recent date, as Fr. Ant. 
Cauli n (Hist, de la Nueva Andalucia, written in 1766) mentions but 
A «on, Rinon, and Chirimoya. This last name is evidently 
leaning, after Garcilaso d J la Vega, " fruta de seimlla fria," probably 
!l account of its growing in the Tierra Fria. iluanaco, in Peru (in 
5 "00 feet over the sea), is still to-day famous for its Chirimoyas. The 
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