COCOA, INDUSTRY AND TRADE. Cocoa is manufac tured from the seed of the cacao tree (generally Theobrosna Cacao, rarely T. pentagona or T. sphaerocarpa, small trees of the family Sterculiaceae), a native of tropical America but extensively cultivated elsewhere in the Tropics. The raw product is known commercially as cocoa or the cocoa bean; and scientifically as cacao (Mex. cacauatl). The word cocoa is a peculiar English cor ruption of cacao and will be reserved here solely for the manu factured cocoa powder; whilst cacao will be used for the tree, the "bean," and the butter derived from the bean.