When one takes off the Film that covers one of the Kernels, the Substance of it appears; which is tender, smooth, and inclining to a violet Colour, and is seemingly divided into several Lobes, tho' in reality they are but two; but very irregular, and difficult to be disengaged from each other, which we shall explain more clearly in speaking of its Vegetation. [k]_Oexmelin_ and several others have imagined, that a _Cocao_-Kernel was composed of five or six Parts sticking fast together; Father _Plumier_ himself fell into this Error, and has led others into it[l]. If the Kernel be cut in two length-ways, one finds at the Extremity of the great end, a kind of a longish [m]Grain, one fifth of an Inch long, and one fourth Part as broad, which is the _Germ_, or first Rudiments of the Plant; but in _European_ Kernels this Part is placed at the other end. One may even see in _France_ this Irregularity of the Lobes, and also the _Germ_ in the Kernels that are roasted and cleaned to make Chocolate. FOOTNOTES: [a] _Piso_ says (_Montiss. Aromat. cap. 18._) that the Blossom is great and of a bright Yellow, _Flos est magnus & flavescens instar Croci_. A modern Author has transcribed this. Error of _Piso_; _Floribus_, says he, _magnis pentapetalis & flavis_. _Dale_ Pharmacologia, _Pag. 441_. [b] Appen. Rei Herbariae. _pag._ 660. _tab._ 444. [1] [2] [3] [4] See the Remarks at the End of this Treatise. [c] _Benzo_ says they grow ripe in a Year, as well as others after him, _Annuo Spatio maturescit, Benzo memorante_. Carol. Cluzio, l. c. _Annuo justam attingens Maturitatem Spatio_. Franc. Hernandes, _apud_ Anton. Rech. _In Hist. Ind. Occidental_, lib. 5. c. 1. [d] It seems likely that the _Spanish_ Authors who say there are four Kinds of this at _Mexico_, have no better Foundation for the difference than this; and Mons. _Tournefort_ had reason to say after Father _Plumier_, that he only knew one Kind of this Tree. Cacao _Speciem Unicam novi_. _Append. Rei Herb._ pag. 660. [e] _A new Voyage round the World._ Tom. 1. Ch. 3. p. 69. [f] Pomet's _General History of Drugs_, Book vii. Ch. xiv. pag. 205. Chomel's _Abridgment of usual Plants_. Valentin. Hist. Simplicium reform. lib. 2. [g] New Relation of the _East Indies_. Tom. 1. Part 2. Ch. 19. [h] A curious Discourse upon Chocolate, by _Ant. Colmenero de Cedesma_, Physician and Chirurgeon at _Paris_ 1643. [i] _The History of Adventures._ Tom. 1. Pag. 423. [k] Ibid. [l] In multas veluti Amygdalas fissiles. _Tournefort_ in Append. Rei Herb. _Pag. 660. & Tab. 444._