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countries, as a sudorific, solvent, dachatinent, and anti-rheu-- 
matic: remedy. At the present day, not only those Indians who: 
have very little communication and dealing with the Spaniards, 
but also the Spaniards themselves, and most of the Indians of 
Peru and people of other castes, make frequent use of the Ca- 
-laguala forthe same purposes. 
The dealers, druggists, and professors of medicine include, 
under the name of Calaguala, three species of roots brought 
from Peru; but the Indians and natives of that. kingdem distin- 
guish these three species by very different names, derived, with 
sufficient propriety, from their respective plants. They call the | 
first and genuine Calaguala, Ceallahuala ; the second, Puntu- 
puntu; and the third species Huacsaro. ges: 
_ The word Calaguala, or rather Ceallahuala, as it is written andl 
pronounced in the Quichoa or general language « Peru, is derived 
from the Indian noun ceallua, answering in Spanish to a trowel or 
batten, an iron instrument shaped like the head of a lance, with 
which the Indian female weavers press the threads of their webs, 
and from the noun huahua in the general language, or hualas in 
that of Chinchaysayo, which in both signifies boy; and the 
rds “united. into Ccallahuala signify a boy’s batten, because 
children use the leaves. of the Calaguala in their sports as bat- 
tens, from their similarity in shape, and with them imitate the: 
labour which they often see their abot (or sg) Cases: 
accustomed | to in it Lengua de red (Deer’s tongu 
las) a name 
doubtless given to it by the Spaniards. | 
eee third species of Calaguala is called. Huacsaro, that 1 is, 2 
: 2D. 
