ACCOUNT OF THE 



ULE-TREE, (CASTILLA ELASTICA), 



AND OF OTHER TREES PRODUCING THE ELASTIC CUM,- 



15y Don VICENTE de CERVANTES, 

 PROF. OF HOT. IN MEXICO. 



£ Translated from the Spanish*} 



W HEN we cast a view over the great variety of 

 remarkable natural productions, which decorate the 

 fertile plains of New Spain, our attention is parti- 

 cularly arrested by that valuable plant, which the 

 ancient inhabitants of Mexico called Holguaheitl\ 

 and which is now known to the natives by the 

 name of Arbol del Vie. Previous to giving a cir- 

 cumstantial account of this tree and its produce, 



* Suplcmcnto a la gazeta de literatura. Mexico. 2 de Julio de 1794. 



•J- Fr ancisci Hernandez nova plantarum, aninialium etmimra- 

 lium Mcxicanorum historia ed. Rom. 1651. fol. pag. 50. (edit, matii- 

 tens. cur. Prof. Ortega, Vol. a.jp. 336.) 



