EXPLANATION OF NAMES OF HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 47 
Peking Wang kiang nan is the Cassia Sophera, L. The 
plants described by Li Sni-cuen under the above names 
are without doubt two species of Cassia, but what Kuo P‘o 
states regarding the Kie ming does not agree. _ 
In the So moku, VIII, 2, Ht WA is Cassia Tora, L., and 3, 
3 il WW Cassia occidentalis, L. ; 
£., 131, family 9t AH. : 
Two different figures, which are taken from S., Il, 3, where 
three can be seen, one of them may be Cassia Tora, L., Sm., 54; 
C., 269 = 1 341, Cassia Sophera, also A , XV, 148. 
The other figure cannot be meant for a leguminosa. 
Z., 179, family 26 jBR fa cannot be the same, its synonym is 
Fal E- <4 tE; determined as Datura alba, N. & E., by Pr.; C., 894, 
* (302); as Datura Metel, L., by A., XV, 164; as Hyoscyamus niger, 
by Sm., 29, 11 5, (also Andromeda, 84). The figure is neither one 
nor the other, nor can it mean a leguminosa. As ig FE HE, 
yellow Azalea is among the synonyms, it may mean Rhododendron 
chinense. 
., 78, 15, has a good figure of 5&¥ ZT FH, a Cassia. 
Fap,, 2060, gives this Chinese name to Senecio japonicus, Schultz. 
57.3  Wui; He HR Sha ts‘iang. 
Kuo P'o :—It is also called & #8 Pai kui (white Blitum, 
see 107). 
Hine Pine refers to the a 9§ Wu 2, mentioned in the 
Pen ts‘ao, about which see 263. 
8 IE Ties Wa Cho ; HE Zt ie 
According to Sue sen, Sun Yew and Kuo P‘, a Jy DB, 
- i Sourd or melon, which is also figured in the corresponding 
plate, 
V. infra, 883, Shi king. 
RO PY ‘—This plant grows in low fields, resembles the 
= it Lung si (a rush, v. infra, 455), but is more slender. 
