14 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
metal vases which Yi had caused to be cast of metal received 
from the nine provinces of China. Regarding these nine 
vases (Fu, HH Kiu ting) see Leaar’s T'so chuan, p. 293, and 
Bamboo Annals, p- 175, where the history of these vases 
related. See also Bazty’s interesting account of the Shan hat 
king in the Journal asiatique, VIII, 1839, p. 337 seqq. | 
Thera can be no doubt that the Shan hai king isa book 
of remote antiquity, 3 Tsz‘ Hia, 5th century B.O; on 
of the disciples of Coxructus, is reported in the MR GH Kia yu, 
or Family Sayings of Coxructus, to have mentioned the 
WW #8 Shan king, 
Shan hai king, as 
276-324], the same who 
the first five books refer to Chin 
us. The headings of the firs 
South, Mountains of 
