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1724. The chucochuco plant applied wet to any wound, cures and 

 cicatrizes it at once. The ucochacora plant is also called ucucha, 

 which means mouse ; they say they die if they eat it ; water boiled 

 with it is a potent remedy for consumptives. The yuralmaycha plant, 

 with its leaves boiled in water, relieves pains in the side and is an 

 efficacious remedy against the tabardillo fever, melancholia, and 

 heartburn ; women in childbirth drink this water and lose the after- 

 birth immediately. Powdered, it is used to knit and heal broken 

 bones in legs, arms, and elsewhere. 



1725. Of Spanish medicinal plants they have rosemary, fennel, 

 marjoram, rue, maidenhair fern, ceterach, mint, hierba de Santa 

 Maria, celery, parsley, balm-gentle, coriander, pennyroyal, camomile, 

 nettles, common cress, vervain, roses, pinks, sweet basil, gillyflowers 

 in white, yellow, purple, and of every sort, sweet marjoram, borage, 

 artemisia, lilies, white lilies, pimpinel, watercress, clover, poppies, 

 carrots, lettuce, cabbages, radishes, turnips, onions, and garlic, the 

 virtues of most of which are well known, 



1726. Of Spanish fruit they have quinces, pomegranates, large 

 and small peaches, apricots, plums, figs, quantities of grapes, pears, 

 melons, cucumbers (but the native kind is better), all kinds of 

 pumpkins and squashes, eggplants, artichokes, oranges, citrons, grape- 

 fruit, limes, lemons, ciuties, and bitter oranges. Of native fruit 

 there are three kinds of guavas ; pacaes, which are a sweet fruit 

 and easy to digest; native cucumbers; bananas; palta (aguacate), 

 a delicious and wholesome fruit ; pineapples, a fragrant and exquisite 

 fruit, but phlegmy; passionflower (granadilla), whose Indian name 

 is tintin and which is very delicious ; jiquirna, which is a root like 

 a large turnip, very juicy, sweet, and cooling ; hung up, it will keep 

 a long time ; f rutilla de Chile, which are like strawberries and 

 resemble tree-strawberries but are better ; there are round pumpkins 

 which are called zapallos ; there is another fruit like a cucumber, 

 called achocha, and many other varieties of fruit impossible to 

 enumerate ; tomatoes and peppers of many sorts, which the Spaniards 

 call aji and the Indians ucho. 



Chapter XXVIII 



Of the Crops Sowed in the District of This City, Both Spanish 

 and Indigenous, and of the Rivers in This District. 



1727. In the neighborhood of this city they plant wheat, barley, 

 chickpeas, large beans, kidney beans, lentils of both the Spanish and 

 native variety, corn, quinua, which is a small grain which they use 



