[= Mod.L. radix lopeziana; orig. applied to the root of an East African species of the same genus, discovered by Juan Lopez Pinheiro (see Redi, Esper. Cose Nat., 1671).] The root of an East Indian plant, Toddalia aculeata, used as a remedy for diarrhœa.
1791. W. Lewis, Mat. Med. (ed. 4), II. Index Eng. Names, Lopez root.
1822. Good, Study Med., I. 237. The lopez-root (lopezia Mexicana) [this is a mistake] which by Gaubius was preferred to the simarouba.
1856. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Lopez, name given to the root of an unknown tree growing, it is said, at Goa.
