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COCOA 



CHAP. 



against droughts or other noxious influences when the 

 shoot is young. 1 



The flower. In most handbooks hardly anything 

 is said about the flowers of the cocoa plant, save that 



FIG. 9. Flowers and fruits on the main branches of a cocoa tree. 



the cocoa tree is " cauliflorous." This means nothing 

 more than that the flowers develop on the stem (Fig. 8) 



1 Readers who wish to know more about stipules may be referred to Lord 

 Avebury's interesting little book, On Buds and Stipules. It mainly deals, how- 

 ever, with trees of the temperate zone. 



