In the Annual Report of the Botanic Gardens, Ceylon, doris. : 
1887, Dr. Trimen, F.R.S., states that the Coca plants at kgs d 
and possibly all the plants now in the Colony have been derived from 
Cw plant received in 1870. As there has been only one Coes ato 
: such plants would necessarily belong to the variety nov 
= grana (Fig. 2) already described. "The specimens of leaves rec 
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: pointed, dark p. and correspond very nearly with specimens col- 
lected in Peru r. Pearce, The analyses of the Ceylon leaves > 
exceptions, of any received. Of the two specimens grown 
Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, it will be noticed that the leaves dried | 
the shade yield *60 per cent. of Cocaine while the same leaves dried i 
the sun yield only ‘47 per cent. Leaves grown in Ceylon at 1,500 feet, 
| ulis. The differe ence 
The aes received from British Guiana are not distinguishable 
neral characters from the Ceylon leaves. They are perhaps | 
coriaceous, but have the same dark green colour on the upper surface 
and are quite as large. The yield of Cocaine is somewhat less, but while 
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The Java leaves represent Coca grown at 800 feet. t, 3,000 ie 
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—... Cocaine, the results of the maaro sample yieldi ing ‘34 per ei 
, erystallisable Cocaine and *09 per c t. uncrystallisable Cocaine. 1 
. leaves grown at an elevation of 5. ‘000 ‘feet s t show a less favourable result 
— than those grown at either 800 feet or 3,000 feet. This may be owing 
.. in part at least to the fact that they were dried in the sun. Mr, Howar 
7 Btates that the Bolivian leaves which usually reach this country rias 
. South America contain '40 per cent. of pen ae Cocaine and ‘05 
1s unerystallis able. 
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