right thigh of Nochipilli ‘where the buttock begins, is 
the cup of the flower of our everyday tobacco, Nicotiana 
Tabacum, repeated on the left forearm. For the Amer- 
indians the tobacco plant was one of the most holy plants. 
Mrs. Seeler has reproduced the design on the right thigh 
(a) and also an illustration of a detail (b) of NM. Tabacum 
as shown in the Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora 
edited by Henry A. Gleason, Vol. 38, p. 205. 
‘Two carvings of flowers on the statue of Nochipilli re- 
main. On the left side, Just where buttock and thigh 
meet, a well delineated flower holds our attention, and 
the same flower appears on the right side of the torso, 
aaeret eye RG 
*" 
Fig. 10 
Emerging bud of Heitmia salicifolia? 
above the belt. Schultes, somewhat uncertain, asks 
whether it could be a swollen bud of Heimia salierfolia, 
just about to open up. As we have seen, ololiuhqui (the 
morning glory Rivea corymbosa) is present on the statue 
at two stages of its growth: why not sinieuichi also? 
Finally there is the carving on the left side of the 
torso, just above the belt, with two retroussé curls, 
clearly defined. Schultes and his colleague, Elmer Smith. 
subject to a better suggestion from others, think that 
this may represent Calea Zacatechichi.. For the Chontal 
Indians of Oaxaca the leaf of this plant is the thle pela 
hano, the ‘leaf of god’, and they use it ‘for the clarification 
