PLANTS MENTIONED IN THE ry Ya. “91 
The Rh ya is comprised in the above-noted great edition of 
the thirteen Classics, and appears there with the title HEE He 
Eh ya chu shu—the Rh ya commented and explained. The 
character # refers to the commentary of 38 BE Kuo Po. 
For further particulars see Botan. sin., I, 35. 
The character jf, which Lxaae translates by expositions, 
glosses and disquisitions, denotes the explanations by Jf$ &% 
Hine Prva, a scholar of the Sung dynasty, who lived A.D. 
932-1010. 
Kuo P‘o states in his preface that for his commentaries on 
the Rh ya he had made use of previous explanations. Hive 
Pine frequently quotes authors of the Han period who had 
attempted to explain this ancient dictionary. The earliest of 
these seems to have been Bij 7k Liv Huy, a celebrated author 
of the first century B.C. Huxe Pine calls him & J. Sue sen, 
which seems to have been his pseudonym, but she jen, in the. 
time of the Han, was also a title—secretary. As the names 
and synonyms in the &A ya run in a continued series of 
characters without any break, it is sometimes difficult to 
_ decide how these names are to be separated, SHE JEN was 
the first to indicate this division. 
BE HE Fay Kuane and 28 X& Li Sin aro likewise mentioned 
by Hine Piye as commentators of the Rh ya in the Han 
period. Regarding the first, we know that he was a man 
- from 748 JK King chao and lived in the Posterior Han dynasty 
[A.D. 25-221]. 
 -#% B Suw Yew or KK HH FR Sun Suv say, who also 
“commented upon the Rh ya, was a contemporary of Kuo P*o. 
- Both Kuo P‘o and Hine Prive, in their explanations, 
- occasionally refer to two ancient authors named 54 FG Ste and 
HE S6 Mov. As their cognomina are not given (they are 
evidently considered as well known scholars) it is impossible 
_ to say who is meant ; but there is some probability that the 
