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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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 occupation — whether employed in the mines, the fields, as a muleteer, or domestic servant, the 
Indian resigns himself to the pleasures of Coca chewing.” 10s. 6 d. 
ERYTHRINA PARCELLI. 
A very handsomely variegated plant from the South Sea Islands. It has stoutish woody stems, 
furnished with alternate leaves, the petioles of which support three leaflets. The variegation is 
yellow, sometimes forming a feather-like stripe along the costa and main veins, sometimes more 
suffused, and forming a band an inch wide, in which ease 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 yellow. The flowers are also attractive, of a bright cinnabar-red colour. 10s. 6d. 
