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NATTJ11AL HIS TOBY OF TLANTS. 



wax lights. The kernels are employed principally in the .manu- 

 facture of chocolate. An infusion of the shells forms a popular drink 

 in some countries. Other species of Theobroma supply seeds of Cocoa 

 for consumption. We may cite especially T. glaucum? bicolor; guian- 

 eme' ovali/bMum* angusUfolium, 6 sglvestre, 9 subincanum, 1 speciosum,* 

 microcarpum? The C. simarron of Colombia is Ilerrania a/bi/lora ;™ 

 C. de montagne of the same country is //. pulcherrima ;" and the 

 Elm-leaf Cocoa of the Antilles, is Guazuma ulmifolia^ whose fruit 

 is alimentary, mucilaginous, and astringent, and whose bark is 

 macerated, and then used in the clarification of sugar. 



Several other Malvacece have alimentary fruits. That of Brio- 

 dendron anfractuosum 13 (fig. 1GS) is eaten in India, sometimes cooked, 

 sometimes raw. Those of the Pachira insignis 14 and aquatica 1 ' bear, 

 for the same reason, the names of chestnuts of Spain and Guiana, 

 [Chdtaignes de la cute d'Esjiagne and de la Guyane), or of Wild Cocoa, 

 (Cacaos sauvages). That of Durio zibetldnus™ (fig. 173) is said to be 



1 Kabst., in Linnma, xxviii. 447. — Rosenth., 

 op. cit., 726. Mr. Kabsten says that the seeds 

 of this species scarcely differ in taste from those 

 of the cultivated C. and form part of the Caracas 

 C. of commerce. 



2 H. 13., PI. Mourn., i. 104, t. 30.— H. B. K., 

 Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 317. — H. Bn.. in Diet. 

 Fncycl. So. Med., xi. 366. — Cacao bicolor ~Pom., 

 Diet., Suppl., ii. 7 (Bacao of New Granada). 

 Fruit ovoidal, with ten ribs little marked from 

 16 to 22 centim. (about from h\ to 1\ inches) 

 long, said to form part of the C. of Caracas. 



3 W., Spec, iii. 1422.— DC, Prodr., i. 484, 

 n. 2. — Cacao guianensis Aubl., Gitian., ii. 683, 

 t. 275. Fruit ovoidal-rounded, with five round 

 prickles covered with a short down 12 centim. 

 long, 7 centim. wide, producing, we are assured, 

 part of tbe C. of Cayenne. 



4 Sess. & Moc., Fl. Mex. Ined. (ex DC, 

 Prodr.. n. 5). 



5 Sess. & Moc., loc cit. — Bosenth., op. cit., 

 726. C. Soconusco and Fsmeraldas are attri- 

 buted to this and to the preceding species. i 



G Cacao sylvestris Aubl., op. cit., 687, t. 276. 

 Fruit obovoidal, slightly piriform at the base, with 

 ribs almost wanting, covered with a reddish down, 

 14 centim. long, said to give part of tbe C of 

 Cayenne. 



' Mabt., ex Bosenth., op. cit., 726. 



8 W., ex Rosentu., loc. c!/. 



9 Mabt., cx Rosenth., loc cit. Tbese three 

 last species produce the C of Brazil. C. minus 

 GjEETN. (Frttct., ii. 190, t, 122) is given by De 



Candolxe as synon. with T. Cacao L. (See p. 

 82, note 5.) The principal sorts of C. not 

 terres are Soconusco (note 7) and those of Fara, 

 Maragnan, Martinique, and St. Domingo. 



10 Goud., in Ann. Sc Nat, ser. 3, ii. 230, t. 

 5, figs. 1—10 (vulg. Cacao montaraz or simarron 

 of New Granada). The Quararibea Cacao 

 H. Bn. [in Adansonia, x. 147; — Myrodia 

 Cacao Tr. & Pl. (vulg. Palo haston)\ bears also 

 in this country the name of C. simarron. 



11 Goud., loc cit., 232, t. 5, figs, 11, 12.— 

 -ST. aspera Kakst. — Brotolroma aspera Ivabst. 

 & Tr. (C. cuadrado or Cahoui). 



12 Lamk., Diet., iii. 52. — Theobroma G-uazuma 

 L., Spec, 1100. — Bubroma Guazuma W. (vulg. 

 Elm of the Antilles). 



13 DC, Prodr., i. 479, n. 2. — Bombax pentan- 

 drum L., Spec., 959. — Cay., Diss., v. 293, t. 

 151 (see Biieed., Sort. Malab., iii. t. 49-51 ; — 

 BuMPn., Herb. Amloin., i. t. 80). 



14 Carolinea insignis Sw., Fl. Tnd. Occ, ii. 

 1202.— DC, Prodr., i. 478, n. 3.— Rosexth., 

 op. cit., 71 7. — Bombax grandiflorum Cav., Diss., 

 v. 295, t. 154. 



15 Aubl., Guian., ii. 725, t. 291, 292.— Cat., 

 Dm., iii. 176, t. 72, fig. 1.— Lamk., III., t. 589. 

 — Carolinea princeps L. F., Suppl., 314. — DC, 

 i. 478, n. 1 (Sapoto longo, of New' Granada). 



16 L., Syst., 698.— Lame., Ill, t. 641.— DC, 

 Prodr., i. 480. — Rosenth., op. cit., 720. — 

 Duryon Rumph., Herb. Amboin., i. 99, t. 29 

 (vulg. Herisson d'arbre). 



