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Venezuela Criollo may, then, be considered as the 

 typical Criollo. As Preuss says : " Venezuela is the 

 classical home of the Criollo. From there alone does it 

 come into the market under this name. Every Vene- 

 zuelan planter knows how to distinguish ' Criollo ' from 

 ' Trinitario ' or ' Carupano ' " (" Trinitario " and " Caru- 

 pano" are the Venezuelan names for " Forastero "). 



The main characteristics of the Criollo (Figs. 21, 

 22) are (1) the shape of the seeds, which are plump 



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FIG. 21. Typical Criollo fruits (Java), slightly larger than the average. 



and not flat but round ; (2) the consistency of the fruit- 

 wall, which is always comparatively soft and easy to 

 cut ; and (3) the surface of the fruit- wall, which has 

 ten distinct furrows, five of which are deeper than the 

 other five between them (Fig. 22), while the prominent 

 ridges running between the furrows are very warty 

 and irregular. The size and shape of the fruit vary a 

 little, and are slightly different in the different local 

 types of Criollo, but the fruit is always broad at the 

 stalk-end, and never constricted, and tapers generally 

 not always to a more or less sharp point. 



