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It may be that the Venezuelan correspondent did 

 not want to send the valuable type of his country ; at 

 any rate, the single tree which remained out of the 

 case from Venezuela proved to be an inferior Forastero, 

 a Cundeamor type, with small yellow fruits, and flat 

 beans of a dark violet colour (Fig. 122). 1 



If the progeny had been of the same quality as 

 this first Forastero tree, it would have been of little 

 value for the cocoa culture in Java. This, however, 

 was not the case. The trees, grown from seeds of 

 the imported tree, were very different among each 

 other, but all possessed distinct Criollo characteristics, 

 together with Forastero characteristics of the mother- 

 tree. 



FIG. 122. A fruit of the original Forastero tree imported into Java from 

 Venezuela (after Zehntuer). 



The hybridisation was so apparent that Mr. Mac- 

 Gillavry called the progeniture " Djati Roenggo hybrid 

 cocoa," a collective name for all the descendants of 

 the imported Forastero tree of the plantation " Djati 

 Roenggo." 



Like all the hybrids, the " Djati Roenggo " hybrid 

 is very inconstant, and shows a great variety (Figs. 

 123, 124). Among the different individuals, all sorts 

 of combinations of Forastero and Criollo character- 

 istics are to be found. Some trees (Figs. 124, 125) 

 have fruits which are hardly to be distinguished from 

 true Criollo fruits ; others have a clear Cundeamor 

 type (with a constriction near the stalk) ; some have 

 large, round beans, others have small, flat beans, etc. 



1 Particulars about this introduction are to be found in Archie/ voor den 

 Landbouw in Insulindc, i. (1901), pp. 23 and 52. 



