40 ERYTHEOXYLON COCA 



Gen. de Therap., Feb. 28, 1866, and Pharm. Journ., vol. viii, 

 2 ser., p. 299 ; Christison, in British Medical Journal, April -'., 

 1876, and Pharm. Journ., vol. vi, 3 ser., p. 883; Dowdeswell, 

 in Lancet for April 29, 1876, p. 631, and May 6, p. 664. 



DESCRIPTION OP PLATE. 



Drawn from a specimen in the Royal Gardens, Kew, flowering in May ; the 

 fruit added from a specimen in the Kew herbarium collected in Bolivia. 



1. A branch with young foliage and flowers. 



2. A flower. 



3. Petals. 



4. Flower with petals removed. 



5. Calyx and pistil. 



6. Yertical, and 



7 and 8. Transverse section of ovary. 

 9, 10. Fruit. 



11. Transverse section of the same. 



12. Stipules. 



13. Apex of leaf. 



(2-8, 10-12 enlarged.) 



