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COCOA 



CHAP. 



Local Types 



Venezuela Angoleta. A detailed description of this 

 type has not yet been given, and the reader can only 

 be referred to what has been already said regarding the 

 Angoleta variety in general. 



Among the group of local types grown in the basin 

 of the Orinoco and indicated as Carupano Cacao, we 

 find types called Carupano grande or Carupano grande 

 mejor, which are much like typical Angoleta in their outer 

 appearance, but the fruit-wall is less warty, the furrows 

 are not so deep, the beans are smaller and flatter, the 

 quality is not so fine, and in every respect these types 

 show characters of Angoleta and of Amelonado com- 

 bined. As they generally resemble the Amelonado 

 more than the Angoleta, they are best considered as 

 belonging to the former variety. 



Trinidad Angoleta (Fig. 29) has been mentioned 

 by Hart 1 under the name of "Trinidad Forastero." 

 It is generally met with in the estates in Trinidad 

 together with other varieties of Forastero. 



Through the kindness of Mr. Augustus, Manager 

 of the Government Cocoa Plantation, " Eiver Estate " 

 (Trinidad), I have obtained the following average 

 figures of a large number of pods of " Trinidad Forastero," 

 collected on that estate and belonging to two Angoleta 

 types : 



Java Angoleta is now the most common Forastero 

 in Java. It is a hybrid between the originally imported 

 Forastero Cundeamor and the Java Criollo. The 

 original Cundeamor was one tree with fruits of an 



1 Hart, Cacao, Figs. Z and A. 



