Erythroxylon
(from erythros, red, and xylon, wood; some of the species have red wood). Including Sethia. ORD. Lineae. A very widely-distributed genus of about fifty species of stove or greenhouse evergreen trees, with small white or yellowish-green flowers, which arise from the axils of the stipulaceous scales. E. Coca thrives in fibry loam; and cuttings of half-ripe shoots will root in sand, under a hand glass, in heat.
E. Coca (Coca). fl. greenish, small, three or four together, axillary. l. alternate, lanceolate or oval, entire. h. 3ft. to 6ft. 1869. This is one of the most interesting species of the genus, and is extensively cultivated; its leaves are largely employed by the South Americans as a masticatory, under the name of Coca. Coca also constitutes an article of commerce with the Indians. Greenhouse. (B. M. Pl. 40.)