EXPLANATION OF NAMES OF HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 57 
sides of the mountains. The leaves resemble those of the 
HE ik Pi ma (Ricinus communis). The stem contains a 
beautiful light, white pith, which is used by women for 
making fancy articles. Its common name is 9 BS 7” ung 
ts‘ao. Under this latter name Ch., VIII, 64, gives a good 
drawing of the Aralia (Fatsia) papyrifera, (Hooker) the 
9 of which, as is now well known, yields the so-called 
“rice-paper.” This plant was long known as growing 
plentifully in Formosa. [Comp. Kew Journ. Bot., IV 
(1852), p. 53 tt. 1, 2.] Recently Dr. A. Henry discovered 
it also in Hu pei [Chinese Names of Plants, 488, t‘ung ts‘ao ; 
Ind. Florae sin., 341]. E.H. Parker [ China Rev., LX, 327] 
reports that the rice-paper plant, t‘ung ts‘ao, is produced 
in Sung k‘an (Sz ch‘uan, near the Kueichou frontier). 
The pith paper in China is chiefly used for manufacturing 
artificial flowers for women’s hair. Besides this, the Chinese 
painters execute brilliant paintings on it. Aralia papyrifera 
is an herbaceous plant, but it has sometimes a_tree-like 
appearance, 
8 EL Akebia quinata, Decn., and 3% BR AR Futsia horrida, 
— (Smith), are found in Japan. [See Phon zo, XXX, 8, 9, 
and 10, 11.) : 
£., 134, family 5k HR, with two figures, one for Fatsia papyrifera, 
the other a Qganched prickly plant. 
The names given, infra 143, are included here. 
£., 11, family B [v. supra, 51] mentions /i nan of the Ah ya 
aS a Synonym of Calystegia. 
«88 RB: A HZ. Unknown to the Chinese 
_ Commentators. [Comp. énfra, 105 and 361.] 
i P‘ang ; FB FH Vin jen. 
Se P‘o :—It resembles the %# Su (Perilla). The plant 
: is covered with hairs, In Kiang tung it is now called yin jen. 
‘The People gather and pickle it ; they boil it also for food. 
