eh or more or ess disagreeable. Coca when fresh hasa — 
ewhat grassy, aromatie, and slightly bitter taste, and when carefully 
1 lit. has a similar flavour, ee Ms other cases its aroma is lost, and it 
the late Mr. John Eliot Howard, F.R.S., the well-known authority on 
Cinchona. By the aid of corre respondents in the West Indies, Ceylon, 
India, and Java, numerous samples of Coca leaves eee in t 
countries were obtained with full particulars as regards the cireum- 
adopted in dryin 
. Mr. Howard, and the results are of a very interesting character. T 
point out not o the best kinds of plants to grow, but also the circum- 
= 3 best suited to produce a high eS tea of alkaloids, and the 
best methods for gathering and curing the lea 
It is aga lara to point out that the b pli ctoifiqud of alkaloids often 
ME ird to ; 
owing to different method. : 
Con ee the alkaloid determined in all his analyses “is simply 
Cocai dn a pure ve which is split up into crystallisable and — 
allisable Cocaine 'as x Same doe could be done when working 
ANALYsES of Leaves of Coca. 
Remarks. 
nt, 
Crystallisab 
| Per ent, 
nerystallisable. 
Total Choate 
Ez 
E 
Dried in th 
Dried in tho shadó shade de) Gro ; 
Dried in the sun Guten P Peradeniya. : 
Dried in the shade. 
Grown at Buitenzorg. 
» Sockaboemi. 
Dried im the sun, 
— in come wae 6 months old : 
-+ e 
eco 
e 23s 
Py 
E 
2 
Drie in th sun un (^on 5-6 "Bane ia : 
ell 
Dried in shade. 
ed ie duel ihah dde ac 
eee e 
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