EXPLANATION OF NAMES OF. HERBACHOUS PLANTS, 25 
5.—BR Pi (po); UW] BR Shan kin, mountain kin (now 
pronounced £7). The drawing in the 2A ya represents an 
umbelliferous plant. 
Kuo P‘o :—The Kuang ya says that Shan kin is the same 
as the &§ fi Zung ku’, but the latter plant is coarser and 
larger, it only resembles the kn. 
Hine Pine :—The Shuo wen explains the character kin by 
is‘ao, a plant. The mountain ‘in, called also fy BR Pai 
k‘in (white k‘in), is distinguishe1 from the kin of the plains 
by its white colour. [See also infra, 49.] 
The P., XIV, a. 1, identifies the Pai k‘in and the Shan kin 
with the Tang kui, an aromatic plant the root of which is much 
esteemed by the Chinese as a medicine. The rough drawing 
of the Zang kui in the Ch., oe 14, seems to represent an 
umbelliferous plant. 
So moku, V, 5, sub. ¥ §% Ligusticum pe ree S. et Z., 
according to Maxrwowicz ; same as Apium ternatum with the 
same Chinese name in Sresoup, Syn. plant. econ. jap., 246. 
Herba edulis ac medici usus. This umbelliferous plant is also 
known from Formosa [Jndex Flore sin., 332); probably it 
oveurs also in China proper and may be the Zung kui of the 
Chinese Pharmacopeeia, which drug Tarartyoy in his Catal. 
med, sin., 19, supposes to be yielded by Levisticum chinense ? 
[See my Harly Europ. Res. into the Flova of China, p. 31.] 
E., 132, family = iif. 
S., H, 25; two kinds: #£., 13a, 28. © 
The two drawings in Z, are copies from S. 
Sm., 20, 133, Aralia edulis and Levisticum. 
C.,1250. The Sze chwan Zang-huci is the root of an Umbellifer 
‘not yet determined ; that from the North may be derived from 
Ligusticum acsiellabae: S. & Z.; that imported into Shanghai 
from Japan is the root of Aralia cordata, Thbg. 
6.—}% A Tuan mu [some editions of the Rh ya write #R 
kia instead of meet v. infra 226, ee fe fl Ain eal A KE 
moss kins 
