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T J olya delph la , 
are numerous and curiously enclosed in a white pithy 
substance. The cacao-nuts, being gently parched in 
an iron-pot over the fire, the external covering easily 
separates ; the kernel is levigated on a smooth stone, a 
little annotto is added, and with a few drops of water 
is reduced to a mass, and formed into rolls of one lb. 
weight each. This simple preparation is the most na- 
tural and the best.” But it ought to be added, that 
the chocolate of the shops is composed of various other 
ingredients, and perhaps, in some cases, contains but a 
small proportion of the real powder of the cacao-nut. 
Mon sonia Speciosa, Large-flowered Monsonia ; 
with five-leaved calyx ; cor. five-petaied ; stamens 15, 
united in five divisions $ style five cleft ; caps, five- 
seeded ; leaves in fives, and leaflets twice-pinnated. 
This splendid species is a native of the Cape, and may 
be treated as a hardy green-house plant. 
Citrus. Gen. char. — Cal. five-toothed ; cor. five- 
petaled ; stamens twenty, united into a cylinder $' pistil 
one ; berry celled, with a vesicular pulp. 
This genus was placed under the following order 
Isocandria ; but as the filaments are not inserted into 
the calyx, it belongs more properly, as Dr Smith re- 
marks, to this order. 
To this genus belong Cit. Medica , the Citron, the 
rind of which, and the young fruit, are prepared as a 
sweet-meat; Cit. Aurantium, the Orange, of which two 
varieties, the China and Seville, or the sweet and the 
bitter , are well known ; Cit. Decumana, the Shaddock, 
which produces a fruit equal in size to a man’s head, 
and eaten, like olives, to give a zest to wine ; and of 
