Cs a) ee ee Ce eS PS Se ee ee ee ee eee Tee ee 
BOTANICON SINICUM. 47 
Imperial order in A. D. 1057, in 20 books, by Bt ff $f Chang 
Yii si, a high functionary, assisted by $f f@& Lin i, another high 
official, and several physicians of note. Chang Yii si, a dis- 
tinguished scholar, was a native of Yen ch‘eng hien (Hii chou, 
Honan). 1082 articles are detailed in this treatise, 82 of them 
being new. 
af AK EG Tu hing pen ts‘ao, or illustrated Pen 
ts‘ao, in 21 books published by Imperial order, was compiled by 
fx 4A Su Sung, a high functionary and distinguished scholar, a 
native of T's‘iian chou - Fu kien, after the Kia yu pen ts‘ao (see 23) 
had been completed. The drawings of the natural productions 
of China in this work had been executed by Imperial command 
from nature in the various districts of the Empire. Use had also 
‘been made of similar earlier drawings dating from the T'ang 
period (see above 11). This illustrated Materia medica comprised 
21 books. 
25. The Ax FS Hy BE Pen ts‘ao pie shuo, the production of 
BH IK Ch‘en Ch‘eng, a distinguished physician, was published 
about A. D. 1090. Itis a revised combination of the Pen ts‘ao 
and the T*x hing (24). 
26. The §§ 44 7x ¥E Cheng lei pen ts‘ao, known also under 
the name of Je # AK BH Ta kuan Pen ts‘ao, for it was compiled 
in the second year of the reign of Ta kuan, A. D. 1108, by 
KE tit Bk Tang Shen wei, a physician of Shu (the present S2’ 
ch‘uan). This work unites all that was most valuable in the earlier 
treatises on Materia medica. The matter is arranged in 31 chapters 
under the heads of: Precious stones, Metals, Herbs, Cereals, 
Vegetables, Fruits, Trees, Insects, Fishes, Birds, Quadrupeds, 
Man. In all 1455 objects are described. 29+ plates of drawings 
are added. The Ta kuan Pen ts‘ao is still extant, but I have not 
come across it. Klaproth was in possession of the first book of it, 
See Catalogue des livres (chinois ete.) de Klaproth No. 144, and 
S82’ ku ts‘iian shu 108, fol. 35. Klaproth’s edition was of 1469 
A. D. 
