Species Cienfuegosia gerrardii

For Bernardo de Cienfuegos (c 1580–1640), Spanish physician and botanist who wrote seven hand-written bound volumes, kept at the Spanish National Library, containing some 1 000 drawings of plants, most of them in colour. This monumental work contains a great deal of original data about plants and their application, especially in the realm of medicine. Cienfuegos also translated at least one book from Latin to Spanish, relating to the life of Father Gonzalo de Silveira, a priest of the Society of Jesus, martyred at Monomatapa, a city in Caffraria (1614).