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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
JANUARY. [1889. 
LXXVI.—COCA,. 
Erythroxylon Coca, Lamarck, 
Erythroxylon Coca, var. sovergramieltet, 
In recent years the sina dot imr plant has received considerable 
attention owing in a great e to the codeine properties Mee 
ave be ibed to one gm its: alkaloids called Cocain: 
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e now also largely in use. The plant itself has been noticed ud 
scribed by botanists and travellers for more than three hundred | 
AT earliest detailed account appears to lie that given by Nicholas - 
rdes in the third part of his * Historia medicinal đe las cosas que — 
se traen ae nuestras b Indien ore em que serven en medicina," _ 
which was published at Seville in 1580 after the author’s death. - 
This was translated into Latin by Clusius while delayed by adverse 
inds at Trova on his way to Belgium, where the translation was - 
(LONDON: f 
