Flora Medica

ERYTHROXYLE.E.calycine segments, oblong, concave, wavy, with a lacerated and muchplaited membrane arising from within and above the base. Stamens 10 ;filaments longer than the pistil, combined below into a rather shortcylindrical tube. Ovary oval. Styles 3, about as long as the ovary.Stigmas thickened. Fruit a 1-seeded, oblong drupe, in a dry stateobscurely furrowed. Nut of the same shape and furrowed. A powerfulstimulant of the nervous system, affecting it in a manner analogous toopium. Less violent in its effects than that drug, but more permanentin its action. The Peruvians chew the leaves with finely powdered chalk,and the government of Potosi alone derived a revenue of a* much as500,000 peso duros in the year 1583 from their consumption.200