296 
i icati did not 
dium was completed. The publication, however, 
fake lass until 1651, the title of the work being ‘Rerum 
athe . ee . . . s rbe 
Orbis Medici Primarii relationibus in ipsa Mexicana u 
ge : 
Ximenes’ ‘Quatro Libros.’ This work is extremely rare, “e : 
seems therefore worth while to translate and reproduce the w ie 
€ so as Ximenes had the advantage 0 
Chapter xxv. of his ‘ Quatro lib ; bis 
“Chapt. xxv. of that which is called Coatl.* The said Coa ai 
a so-called shrub, although I have seen it taller than many a@ tall on 
some also call it tlapal ezpatli, or red blood medicine. It is a : 
shrub with a stout stem, which is destitute of knots, after a 
The leaves are like those of the ¢ r : 
ea, but smaller, or almost like those of the rue, but somewha 
ts er, about half way between these two extremes ; the flowers are 
yellow, delicate (lazia), 
cold and humid, thou 
in almost the whole 
Yo 
many other parts. The water with which chips of the trunk of the 
plant have been i 
