NEW, BARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 4& 
ERYTHROXYLON COCA. 
This extremely interesting plant is of great officinal importance in South America, where its leaves 
are largely employed as a masticatory, under the name of Coca. When taken internally it acts as a 
powerful stimulant of the nervous system ; and, when under its influence, persons are able to perform 
long and rapid journeys without exhaustion. “Four times a day, whatever the nature of his occu- 
pation — whether employed in the mines, the fields, as a muleteer, or domestic servant, the Indian 
resigns himself to the pleasures of Coca chewing." 10s. Gd. 
ERYTHRINA PARCELLI. 
A very handsomely variegated plant from the South Sea Islands. It has a stoutish woody stem, 
furnished with alternate leaves, the petioles of which support three leaflets. The variegation is yellow, 
sometimes forming a fcather-like stripe along the costa and main veins, sometimes more suffused, and 
forming a band an inch wide, in which case the lateral veins take on more colour, and the coloured 
line becomes again branched ; when at its fullest colouring, the centre of the leaf is mottled with 
j'cllow. The flowers are also attractive, of a bright cinnabar-red colour. 10s. Gd, 
