4 ARKIV FÖR BOTANIK. BAND 17. N'.O 12. 



juicy and fragrant as in the foregoing species. Ovules and 

 seeds as in the foregoing. 



C. jjentagona is called »babaco» by the natives and is 

 regarded as a great delicacy. It is common in the valleys 

 of Pastaza and Ambato. I have also found it in a convent- 

 garden at Quito (2,850 m) but the climate of this locality 

 was obviously too cold, for the trees did not produce fruil 

 of good quality. Hence the limits of altitude may be esti- 

 mated at 1,500 and 2,500 m resp. Type specimens from 

 Quito. The photograph on PI. I shows an individual from 

 Banos. I did not preserve any flowers from the latter lo- 

 cality but undoubtedly they were identical with those from 

 Quito. 



C. candamarcensis Hook. fil. 1875. 



My Figs. 3 and G. 



This is a very characteristic species with sulcate fruiü 

 that very much resemble the fruits of Theohroma Cacao 

 though they are smaller. According to Hooker the pulp is 

 yellow, but I have always found it whitish (this difference 

 does not seem to be of any great importance, however) 

 The fruit contains plenty of tubercular seeds. The uppei 

 part of the stem, the petioles, the under side of the leaves 

 the inflorescences and the outside of the petals are coverec 

 with a soft pubescence. The tree is 3 — 5 m high and öfter 

 branched. 



Hooker's description, as well as the coloured plate 

 accompanying his work, is in one respect incomplete, viz. 

 as regards the female flowers, unfortunately, I have not ii 

 my collection preserved more than one female flower, which 

 however, is reproduced in Fig. 3. The sepals of this flowe 

 are about 2 mm long, oblong, acuminate. The petals ar« 

 oblong-lanceolate, contracted above the middle to a linear 

 revolute end which is straight (not bent upwards) and of j 

 yellowish-green colour. The ovary is ovate, acuminate an( 

 carries five linear stigmata with bifid ends. 



Hooker described his plant as monoecious with the ter 

 minal flower of the inflorescenses often female and the othe 

 ones male, though he did not, as mentioned above, describ 



