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fluid and soft as the pulp of the ordinary cocoa, but 

 more solid and sometimes a little fibrous. 



Hart brought the tree to Trinidad and planted it in 

 the Botanical Gardens, where it has grown to be a 

 much larger tree than T. cacao. It was planted out 

 in 1893, and gave fruit for the first time in 1905. The 

 fact that it stands drought better than T. cacao has 

 led Hart to suggest that it could perhaps be used as 

 a grafting or budding stock for other weak-growing 

 varieties. 



Theobroma simiarum, Donn. -Smith. This species 

 has only been found in Costa Kica, where it is called 

 by the inhabitants " cacao de mico." 



T/ieobroma Mariae, Gond. This species grows in 

 the forests of the Upper Amazon and most probably 

 also in the basin of the Kiver Para. The seeds have 

 been found occasionally as an adulteration of Para 

 cocoa; they are called "cacaito" or " cacaoti," and are 

 easily to be distinguished, macroscopically as well as 

 microscopically, from the real cocoa. 1 



Theobroma pulcherrima, Gond. This species has 

 been found by Gondot in Colombia near the Upper 

 Orinoco, in the country situated between the Meta 

 River and the Guayabeira. There it is known by 

 the Indians under the name " cacao cahonai," and by 

 the Colombians as " cacao quadrado " or " cacoito de 

 monte." So far as is known, the seeds are not used 

 for any purpose. 



Theobroma speciosa, Spreng. This species occurs 

 in the province of Para (Brazil) and has lately been 

 found in Surinam. Like its varieties quinquenervum 

 (Bern.) K. Schum. of the Rio Negro (Brazil) and French 

 Guiana (Cayenne), and Spruceana (Bern.) K. Schum. 

 which has been collected in Para, Theobroma speciosa 

 has no practical value. In Surinam the Indians like 

 to suck the seeds, which are surrounded by a sweetish 

 pulp. 



In Surinam this species has been found to be very 



1 De Wildeman, Les Plantcs tropicales, p. 86. 



