BOTANY AND NOMENCLATURE 18 



name, and appears to suggest some connection with the 

 " Wari," or wild hog, probably a peccary {Bicotyles) which 

 is known>to emit from a gland on the back a strong-smell- 

 ing fluid. 



From information gathered when in Nicaragua, and 

 from observations made on trees introduced by the author 

 to Trinidad (which have fruited), it is certain that commer- 

 cial cacao of fine quality is produced by Theobroma penta- 

 gona, the beans of which are nearly double the size of the 

 average Trinidad bean. 



Theobroma bicolor and T, angustifolia were unsuccessfully 

 introduced to Jamaica in 1885, the seeds all failing, but in 

 1893 the author introduced into Trinidad Theobroma 

 bicolor, T. angustifolia, T. pentagona, and the variety of 

 Theobroma cacao known as Nicaraguan CrioUo in consider- 

 able numbers, as growing plants. These trees have all pro- 

 duced fruit and have been widely distributed locally and 

 to Ceylon and other places by the Botanical Department, 

 the last to be propagated being T. angustifolia which only 

 furnished fertile seeds in 1907, or fourteen years after intro- 

 duction, the others having produced good seed several 

 years ago. Theobroma pentagona promises to become 

 a favourite with West Indian planters owing to the large 

 size of its beans. From supplies sent by the author to 

 Dominica, Mr. Jones, of the Botanic Station, has been very 

 successful in grafting it upon stocks of Theobroma cacao. 

 Theobroma angustifolia is a larger grower than any other 

 known species, but it does not produce commercial cacao, 

 and is only of botanical interest. The same may be said of 

 Theobroma bicolor. So far, they have not been a success 

 as stocks for the best kinds of commercial cacao, but they 

 may prove suitable on further experiment. Herrania dlbi- 

 flora and Pachira insignis have both been sent to the 

 author as " wild " cacao, but neither of these trees has 

 anything in common with Theobroma cacao, and neither 

 of them produces saleable samples. 



According to Aublet's illustrations the pods of Theobroma 

 guianensis are small and oval, distinctly marked with five 



