VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS FROM CHINA. 108 
subrotunda, extus scabra, fusca, intus albida, insipida, tactu cera- 
cea, quorum decocto in morbis pulmonum et vesice utuntur.’ 
" I therefore wrote to my brother Thomas Hanbury of Shanghai, 
who obtained for me not only the substance called Pe-foo-ling, 
but a second, known as Choo-ling, together with some cakes said 
to be made from one or both of them. These cakes, or an imi- 
tation of them, are commonly sold in the streets of Shanghai; and 
the cry of the itinerant vendors—4 Hoo Ka Foo-ling Ka !—is one 
of the first of the many strange sounds to salute the ear of the 
newly-arrived foreigner. | 
“ With respect to the Foo-ling itself, my first impression was 
to regard it as the rhizome of some species of, лийат, allied to S. 
China, L., the source of the drug known as China Root. Such 
was the opinion of the older writers, as Martini, who, in his 
‘ Novus Atlas Sinensis’ (1655), describes it as being the true China 
Root. Cleyer also, in his ‘Specimen Medicine Sinicw ’ (1682), 
Says of it*, ‘ Est idem quod Lusitanice dicitur Pao de China, nisi 
quod album et multo melius sit rubeo illo, et etiam carius multo.’ 
“ I had soon, however, to alter my opinion on testing a decoction 
of the Fbo-ling with iodine and finding it to contain no starch, the 
abundant presence of that body being a marked character of the 
Smilax rhizome. I found also, upon turning to the ‘Herbarium 
Amboinense ’ (xi. 128), where Rumphius describes it as Hoelen, 
that its distinctness from China Root had been there noticed. Mr. 
Kippist, however, soon settled the question, by pointing out to me 
їп the ‘Linnean Transactionst’ a paper by Dr. James Macbride, 
of South Carolina, entitled “Some account of the Lycoperdon 
solidum of the Flora Virginica," read before the Society 8rd June, 
1817; and at the same time laying before me а fine series of spe- 
cmens of Lycoperdon solidum, with which plant it was evident 
the Chinese Pe-foo-ling was, if not identical, at least very nearly 
related, 
“ Of the Choo-ling, I have nothing to tell you, except that, in 
common with the Pe-foo-ling, it is described and figured in the 
great Chinese Herbal, the Pwn-tsaou.” 
Mr. Hanbury has, in addition to these remarks, furnished me 
With a translation of that portion of the * Pun-tsaou’ which relates 
to these productions, which I have the pleasure of now laying 
before the Society 1. 
* Medicamenta simplicia, No. 189. ——  . + Vol xii. р. 368. - 
$ Fub-ling and Choo-ling.—Abetract- -абе 
