Crossword-Solution: CARYOCAR 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The seeds have two very distinct coverings, and this circumstance renders the structure of the fruit more complicated than in the lecythis, the pekea or caryocar, and the saouvari.

And so I end my little episode about these Lecythids, only adding that the reader must not confound with their nuts the butter-nuts, Caryocar, or Souari, which may be bought, I believe, at Fortnum and Mason's, and which are of all nuts the largest and the most delicious.

The genus _Caryocar_ contains ten species, in tropical South America, some of which form large trees affording a very durable wood, useful for shipbuilding.

SOUARI NUT.] SOUARI NUT, OR BUTTERNUT.--This nut, like the last, is a native of British Guiana, and is the fruit of the _Caryocar nuciferum_, a noble tree, growing a hundred feet high, having large, broad, trifoliate leaves, resembling those of our common horse-chestnut, but not quite as broad.

Another tree which grows in similar situations, is a species of _Caryocar_, that presents a fine appearance when covered with its large corymbs of yellow flowers; the fruit, which was not ripe during my stay, is said to be excellent when cooked, and its hard wood is of great use as timber in the construction of mills.