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Index of Botanical Specimens

Classification	Erythroxylaceae: Erythroxylum
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)	00948205
Collector	[no data available]
Country	Sri Lanka
Geography	Asia: India (Region): Sri Lanka
Locality	Collected in the Royal Botanic Garden, Peradeniya, Ceylon
Date Collected	1907-05-29
Habitat	cultivated
Container	Economic Plants of the World
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/1c6f1e90-103c-408d-8a82-3a700d6874ba
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode	00948205
Herbarium	GH
Family	Erythroxylaceae
Determination	Erythroxylum coca Lamarck
Determined by	Plowman, Timothy Charles
Date Determined	1980-06-01
Determination Remarks	[filed under] [label name] [current name]
Family	Erythroxylaceae
Determination	Erythroxylum coca Lamarck
Determined by	Payens, Joannes Petrus Dominicus Wilhelmus (Leyden)
Date Determined	1958-03-**
Sex	not determined
Phenology	NotDetermined
Preparation Type	Sheet
Preparation Method	Pressed

Remarks

"The native country of the coca being still uncertain, it is necessary for purposes of description to take as the type the earliest described form, which happens to be a Peruvian one, named by Lamarck Erythroxylon Coca, and figured in the Botanical Magazine, 1894, pl. 7334. The leaves of this form are about 2.5 in long, oblong-obovate, tapering to a short stalk, rounded at the apex, the midrib extending beyond into a short sharp point. Peru produces fifteen million punds of the dried leaf every year. Bolivia half as much, and the rest of South America very much more." (Miller). The leaves yield cocaine