114: DICTIONARY OF POPULAR NAMES CHOCOLATE 



Market. They are largely cultivated in Jamaica for feeding 

 hogs. 



Chocolate Nut or Bean {Thedbroma Cacao), a small tree of 

 the Chocolate Nut family (Byttneriacese), native of tropical 

 America, now widely distribu.ted, and cultivated in most tropical 

 countries. It grows from 16 to 18 feet Mgh, and has broad, 

 oblong, pointed leaves of a thin texture. The flowers are small, 

 and produced on the old stem and branches, and in time are 

 followed by a pod -like fruit, 6 to 10 inches in length, and 3 to 

 5 in giith, more or less marked with longitudinal ribs, and con- 

 taining 50 or more seeds. When ripe these seeds, which are 

 covered^with mucilage, are taken from the fruit and are allowed 

 to undergo a slight fermentation, after which they are dried in 

 the sun, when they acquire a brown colour, and become the 

 Chocolate Bean or JSTut of commerce; roasted, and split or 

 hroken, they are the Cocoa Nibs of the shops; on being 

 ground they become Cocoa Powder, and thus made into paste 

 form cakes called Chocolate, which is generally flavoured with 

 vanilla and sugar. In analysing some samples of chocolate 

 some years since, they were found to be adulterated with red 

 earth. This was afterwards attributed to the beans being 

 sprinkled with water and dusted with red earth to give them a 

 brighter appearance and enhance their value. Chocolate or 

 cacao seeds come to Europe principally from Brazil, Venezuela, 

 New Grenada, and Trinidad. Above 2000 tons are annually 

 imported. The first notice of cacao in this country is contained 

 in a newspaper dated 16th June 1659, The use gradually 

 increased, and in 1880 the quantity entered for home consump- 

 tion was over 10,000,000 pounds. 



Chela. (See Gram.) 



Chooree. (See Butter Tree.) 



Chowlee, a name in India for Bohchos sinensis, by some 

 called Vigna sinensis. An annual climber of the Bean family 

 (Leguminosae), cultivated in India for its pods, which are two 

 feet in length, and contain a number of pea-like seeds, which 

 form a considerable article of food. The young green entire 



