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wax lights. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
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 Zhcobroma supply seeds of Cocoa 
for consumption. We may cite especially 7. glaucum,' bicolor” guian- 
ense,’ ovalifolium,* angustifolium,’ sylvestre,’ subincanum,' speciosum,® 
mucrocarpum. 
The C. simarron of Colombia is Herrania albiflora ;* 
C. de montagne of the same country is H. pulcherrima ;" 
and the 
Elm-leaf Cocoa of the Antilles, is Gwazuma ulmifolia,” whose fruit 
is alimentary, mucilaginous, and astringent, and whose bark is 
macerated, and then used in the clarification of sugar. 
Several other Malvacee have alimentary fruits. 
That of Zrio- 
dendron anfractuosum (fig. 168) is eaten in India, sometimes cooked, 
sometimes raw. 
Those of the Pachira insignis and aquatica’ bear, 
for the same reason, the names of chestnuts of Spain and Guiana, 
(Chataignes de la côte d’Espagne and de la Guyane), or of Wild Cocoa, 
(Cacaos sauvages). 
That of Durio zibethinus" (fig. 173) is said to be 

1 Kansv., in Linnea, xxviii. 447.—ROSENTH., 
op. cit., 726. Mr. KARSTEN says that the seeds 
of this species searcely differ in taste from those 
of the cultivated C. and form part of the Caracas 
C. of commerce. 
2H. B., Pl. Æquin., i. 104, t. 30.—H. B. K., 
Nov. Gen. et Spec., v. 317.—H. By., in Dict. 
Encycl. Sc. Méd., xi. 366.— Cacao bicolor Porr., 
Dict., Suppl., ii. 7 (Bacao of New Granada). 
Fruit ovoidal, with ten ribs little marked from 
16 to 22 centim. (about from 5} to 7} 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., Guian., 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 the C. of Cayenne. 
4 Sess. & Mog., Fl. Mex. Ined. (ex DC. 
Prodr.; n. 5). 
5 Sess. & Mog., loc. cit.—ROSENTH., op. cit., 
726. C. Soconusco and ÆEsmeraldas are attri- 
buted to this and to the preceding species. 
6 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 the C. of 
Cayenne. 
7 Marr., ex ROSENTH., op. cit., 726. 
8 W., ex ROSENTH., luc. cit. 
9 Marr., ex ROSENTH., loc. cit. These three 
last species produce the C. of Brazil. C. minus 
Gerry, (Fruct., ii. 190, t. 122) is given by DE 
CANDOLLE as synon. with 7. Cacao L. (See p. 
82, note 5.) The principal sorts of C, not 
terrés are Soconusco (note 7) and those of Para, - 
Maragnan, Martinique, and St, Domingo. 
10 Goup., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 3, ii, 230, t. 
5, figs. 1-10 (vulg. Cacao montaraz or simarron 
of New Granada). ‘The Quararibea Cacao 
H. By. [in Adansonia, x. 147 ;— Myrodia 
Cacao Tr. & Pt. (vulg. Palo baston)] bears also 
in this country the name of C. simarron. 
H Goup., loc. cit., 232, t. 5, figs. 11, 12.— 
I. aspera KARST.—Brotobroma aspera Karst. 
& Tr. (C. cuadrado or Cahoui). 
12 Lamx., Dict., iii, 52.—Theobroma Guazuma 
L., Spec., 1100.—Bubroma Guazuma W. (vulg. 
Elm of the Antilles). 
1 DC., Prodr., i. 479, n. 2.—Bombax pentan- 
drum L., Spec., 959.—Cav., Diss., v. 293, t. 
151 (see Ruvep,, Hort, Malab., iii. t. 49-51 ;— 
Rumpn., Herb, Amboin., i. t. 80). 
4 Carolinea insignis Sw., Fl. Ind. Oce., ii. 
1202.—DC., Prodr., i. 478, n. 3.—ROsENTH., 
op. cit., 717.— Bombax grandiflorum Cav., Diss., 
v. 295, t. 154. 
5 AUBL., Guian., ii. 725, t. 291, 292.—Cav., 
Diss., iii, 176, t. 72, fig. 1.—Lamx., IIL, t. 589. 
—Carolinea princeps L. ¥., Suppl., 314.—DC., 
i. 478, n. 1 (Sapoto longo, of New Granada). 
16 L., Syst., 698.—Lamx., JU. t. 641.—DC., 
Prodr., i. 480.—Rosrntu., op. cit., 720.— 
Duryon Rumru., Herb. Amboin., i, 99, t. 29 
(vulg. Hérisson d'arbre). 
