a type of cane or reed filled with (or dipped into) aromatic substances (see Molina) to produce incense or perfume; could be put in the mouth to freshen breath (SW)
like a reed leaf (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 107.