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it is easily digested, so as to be recommended for persons in 
delicate health, and who have little or no appetite. To render 
it more nourishing, milk, arrow-root, sago, and even wine may 
be added. It is a very agreeable beverage to the palate, re- 
cruits the strength, invigorates the frame, and is very nutritive. 
By a late regulation of the British Navy, a certain proportion 
of chocolate was directed to be served out to each man in place 
of rum. 
I may add, that according to observations of Mr Henley, 
chocolate, fresh ground, and cooled in tin vessels, becomes highly 
electrical. A drink, sweetened with sugar, is prepared from 
the pulp which surrounds the seeds, and is said to be agreeably 
cooling and refreshing. The husks of the pods are imported 
into Europe, and a decoction is prepared from them, which 
serves as a substitute for the more expensive beverage. The 
seeds of the Cacao were in former times the only substitute for 
coin among the ancient Mexicans. Even in the present day, 
according to Humboldt, the common people make use of them, 
reckoning six seeds as equal to a halfpenny. 
III. Guazuma. 
Calycine sepals 5 distinct or connate into a 2-3-par- 
tite calyx. Petals 5, 2-horned at the apex. Stamens 
slightly monadelphons at the base, forming a very 
short tube dividing into 5 sterile lobes which alternate 
with 5 fertile filaments, 3-fid and 3-antherous at the 
apex. Styles 5 connivent. Capsule lignose, tubercu- 
lated, evalved, 5-celled, pierced with a 10-fold series 
of little holes, many-seeded. Seeds ovate. Cotyledons 
(according to Kunth) plicate. — De Cand. 
1. Guazuma ulmifolia. Bastard-cedar . 
Leaves pubescent above, tomentose beneath with 
stellated hairs. 
Alni fructu morifolia arbor, flore pentapetalo flavo, Sloa?ie , 
II. 18. — Theobroma guazuma, Hort. Cliff. 379. — Swartz, Obs. 
292. — Bubroma guazuma, Willd. III. 1423. — Guazuma ulmi- 
folia, Pers. Enchir. II. 238. 
HAB. Common. 
FL. After the Spring and Autumnal rains. 
A tree, seldom exceeding 15-20 feet in height: branches 
spreading, at their extremities terete, stellato- tomentose. Leaves 
oblongo-ovate, acuminate, cordate and unequilateral at the base, 
unequally serrated, 3-5-ply-nerved at the base, puberulous with 
minute stellated hairs above, tomentose especially along the 
mid-rib with stellated hairs beneath : petiole terete, stellato- 
