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Collector[no data available]
CountrySri Lanka
GeographyAsia: India (Region): Sri Lanka
LocalityCollected in the Royal Botanic Garden, Peradeniya, Ceylon
Date Collected1907-05-29
Habitatcultivated
ContainerEconomic Plants of the World
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Harvard University Herbaria Barcode00948205
HerbariumGH
Determination Erythroxylum coca Lamarck
Determined byPayens, Joannes Petrus Dominicus Wilhelmus (Leyden)
Date Determined1958-03-**
Determination Erythroxylum coca Lamarck
Determined byPlowman, Timothy Charles
Date Determined1980-06-01
Determination Remarks [is filed under name] [is label name] [is Current name]
Sexnot determined
PhenologyNotDetermined
Preparation TypeSheet
Preparation MethodPressed
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