202 OPHIDIANS. 
A. grandiflora Colombiana; it bears a flower 18’’ to 20’” in 
diameter, of strange and rare beauty. ‘This has the same pe- 
culiar shape as that of the A. Colombiana, but on a much 
larger scale, and the infundibuliform calyx has its periphery 
prolonged on one side into two contiguous wedge-shaped 
ribbon-like appendages, of two and one half or three feet in 
length, the lower half of which are not more than a line in 
width. 
A tincture of the root alone, or of the root, leaves, and 
flower, or of the flower alone (when it has just opened for the 
first time) is used by the Curers in cases of bites by many 
different kinds of serpents. 
THE SECRET METHODS OF CURE PRACTICED BY 
THE MOST CELEBRATED CURERS. 
FIRST METHOD. 
Try the patient’s pulse; should it be normal, give Valdivia 
with Mantuo and pulverized alligators’ teeth, and for a bever- 
age water of Azota caballo (a plant). If the pulse is high 
and strong, and the pulsations are noticeable in the jugular 
veins, or the patient spits a frothy, sanguinolent saliva, and 
if before the bite he indulged in any carnal act, to the above 
remedies add the Azota caballo for internal administration, 
and for a beverage, river water. 
If the pulse is feverish, and the aforementioned symptoms 
are absent, it is a tabardillo (brain fever) effect of the bite. 
Should the patient bleed from any of the pores or natural 
outlets of the body, let the blood flow if it has a dark color ; 
and when it begins to turn a bright red administer Valdivia 
with powdered alligators’ teeth,* and to stanch the blood a cup 
* Many Curers say that a snake never bites a person while he holds an 
alligator’s tusk in his hand. 
