56 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
So moku, III, 52, — 3¥ Solanum duleamara, L. 
£., 158, family =| af. The figure indicates a twiner, different _ 
from the figure in Rh ya. Fap., 2100, S. dul. 
Fu is also synonym of #7 or Limnanthemum, E., 66. 
80.— RE ; i Bi. Unknown to the Chinese commentators. 3 
 81.—F Ao ; BRE Sao la. 4 
Kuo P‘o :—It is now called ¥ ## Fan la, also $F BH 
Kz ch‘ang ts‘ao (chicken bowels herb). : 
Hine Pune :—The Pen ts‘ao says, the fan li is of a bitter 
taste. T‘so Hung-xine states that the. people use it as a — 
vegetable for soup. 4 
P., XXVILI, 6, fan la, a creeping plant. The drawing 
in Ch, IV, 7, s.n., agrees with the figure; So moku, 
VIII, 65, under 4 #8, which is Stellaria neglecta, Weihe. — 
_ But the plant 9 I} #4, is kept apart in P., XXVII, 7, _ 
in Ch., IV, 8, and in the Japanese botanical works. In ; 
the So moku it is Eritrichium pedunculare, A.D.C. : 
 £., 144, family We HE, the figure may be of a Stellaria. 
82.— fife Hj Li nan; 7G 3 Huo to. [Comp. also 143.] va 
In the Shan hai hing this plant is repeatedly mentioned | 
under the name of we it Kou to. Kuo Po explains that 
it is an herbaceous plant of the southern provinces, which — 
grows to the height of more than ten feet, and has large — 
leaves resembling those of the ft Ho (Lotus flower). 48 
pith of the stem is very white. The people of 2 Ling and — 
#@ Kui [Hu nan) cultivate it, It is called yf Kuan, a 
grows like a tree, : ‘ 
| In P., XVIII, 28, the above names, found in 1 
Rh ya and Shan hai king, are referred to the ii et 7 Tui 
#0 mu. Lit Sut-cuzy explains this name, saying that 
_ Pith is obtained by stripping off the rind. 7'ung—to 
through ; t‘o=to peel off, Cuan Ts‘ang-K‘r [first half 
the 8th century] states that the tung t‘o tree grows on t 
