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Index of Botanical Specimens

Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)	01103146
Collector	C. F. Baker
Collector number	133
Country	Sri Lanka
Geography	Asia: India (Region): Sri Lanka
Locality	Royal Botanic Garden, Peradeniya Ceylon
Date Collected	1907-05-29
Container	Economic Plants of the World
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/68178bb5-c2f8-420f-acc2-518946c656f7
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode	01103146
Herbarium	A
Determination	Erythroxylum coca Lamarck
Determined by	Payens, Joannes Petrus Dominicus Wilhelmus (Leyden)
Date Determined	1958-03-**
Determination	Erythroxylum coca Lamarck
Determined by	Plowman, Timothy Charles
Date Determined	1980-06-01
Determination Remarks	[is filed under name] [is Current name]
Sex	not determined
Phenology	NotDetermined
Preparation Type	Sheet
Preparation Method	Pressed

Remarks

Sent by the Director. 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 Erythroxylum 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.