296 Sino-Iranica 



jS ffc (Japanese nume-goma or aka-goma), Linum perenne, and Japanese 

 matsuba-ninjin or matsuba-nadeUko, Linum possarioides. 1 Forbes and 

 Hemsley, 2 moreover, enumerate Linum nutans for Kan-su, and L. 

 stelleroides for Ci-li, San-tun, Manchuria, and the Korean Archipelago. 

 In northern China, Linum sativum (San-si hu ma \U ]§ #3 M ) is 

 cultivated for the oil of its seeds. 3 



1 Matsumura, Nos. 1837, 1838; Stuart, Chinese Materia Medica, p. 242. 



2 Journal Linnean Soc, Vol. XXIII, p. 95. 



8 This species is figured and described in the Ci wu min H t'u k'ao. 



