eS - BOTANIOON SINICUM. 
21.— oh BE Lu si ; Hf Pan. 
Kuo P‘ explains, 4 es #% which Lecce [Shi hing] 
translates “the section of a melon,” but it seems rather to 
mean the pulp of a calabash, or melon. The character pan 
is thus defined in the Shuo wen. 
Hine Pixe quotes the Shi king. [v. infra, 384.) 
The corresponding drawing in the Rh ya represents a 
calabash, 
E., 47, family Af. 
For # the Shi king has JE. Not the pulp is meant but the. 
kernels, “Teeth like melon kernels.” Calabash is more correct 
than melon, according to the figure in E. [v. infra, 384). 
22.—35 ja Ju li; SB HE Mao shou. 
Kuo P‘o :—Now it is called fig ts‘ten and used for dyeing 
a dark red (#€) colour. 
Hixe Pine quotes the Shi king. [v. infra, 393.) 
‘The plant 9 shou, mentioned in the Shan hai king, is, 
according to Kuo P*o’s explanation, the same as mao shou. 
According to Li Sin, quoted by K‘une Yiye-ra, mao shou - 
is the same as Pa ts‘ien, Rubia cordifolia, L. The Shuo wen a 
says that this plant grows from human blood. a 
E., 104, family §. 
The figure is the same as in S., Il, 4, and bad. 
P., 18 6, 19. 
The name ju /ii is from the Shi hing. 
One synonym, mentioned in E., is HY. fff Earth-blood. 
23.—F fm 2B. The fruit of the kuo lo is called F& #2 
Kua lou. Figured a cucurbitaceous plant with a globular 
fruit, 
Kuo P*‘o:—Nowadays the people in #% Ts‘i (Northern — 
Shan tung) call it K MR tien kua (heavenly gourd). : 
_ Hine Pine observes that according to Li Siin’s explanation - 
