Species Lagunaria patersonii

For Andrés Laguna de Segovia (1499–1559), Spanish physician, pharmacologist and botanist. He studied art and medicine at the universities of Salamanca and Paris and practised medicine in Spain, France, England, the Netherlands and Italy. Wherever he went he collected herbal remedies and not only verified all the prescriptions of Dioscorides – he was fluent in Greek and Latin – but wrote Annotations on Dioscorides of Anazarbus (Lyon, 1554), a much expanded version of Dioscorides’s Materia Medica (c 65). He became Pope Julius III’s (1487–1555) personal physician while in Italy (1545–1554), as well as doctor to Charles V (1500–1588), Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, and to his son Phillip II (1527–1598). In 1557 he returned to Spain, where he created the Botanical Garden of Aranjuez.