EXPLANATION OF NAMES OF HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 63 
The above-quoted passage in the Hia Calendar is JE A 
#2 #8. Doveias translates it:—in the first month fruits 
the Cyperus. The Shuo wen explains the character ji} by 
i, | 
P., XIVb, 58, fh BE So ts‘ao or FH PF Liang fu tsz 
(fragrant tuber).® 
As synonyms are given the names in Rh ya 73 and 97. 
But the author of the Pen ts‘ao kang mu, and before him 
other Chinese authors, confound two distinct cyperaceous 
plants. Rh ya 73 is the so ts‘uo a Scirpus or Cyperus, the 
fibres of which, in ancient times, were made into rain cloaks 
and hats [see also ‘n/ra, 457], but the plant hao [97] seems : 
to denote the hiang fu tsz‘, which is the Cyperus rotundus, L. 
Its fragrant tubers are used in medicine. 
Lovrerro, Flora cochin., 53, Cyperus rotundus, L., sinice 
hiam phu gu. Horrm. & Scu., 192, 193, refer the name 
Bh + only to Cyperus rotundus, and ji} to C. Lria. But 
the Phon zo, 1X, 35, applies both these Chinese names to 
Cyperus rotundus, as does also Ch., XXV, 35. The figure in 
this latter work represents a sedge with oblong tubers. 
oe 107, family jb, the figure is bad, a Cyperus probably 
| hed, intended (7. supra, 73). Jap. 731, 7 Be # Crperacee. 
C., 412. A., XV, 181. [Sm., 81, C. escudentus], under the 
hame fiang fu. Fap., 740, Cyperus rotundus, L., & Mi f.- 
— 98-38 Kuan (huan) > Ff BE Fu li; Hf BH. The upper 
_ Part of the plant is called Ui. [See also 4, where the same 
: Saapen (U4) is applied to an Allium. | 
a :—Nowadays the people of FF Si tang 
> (Western China) call the #f P*u (cat’s-tail, Typha, +. 
i. infra, 375) 'B ii Kuan p‘u, and its head Ui, In Kiang tung 
rea the same plant is called fu li, and by li they understand the 
inner part of the stem, of which mats are woven. | 
et #'u properly denotes the tuberous root of Aconitum. 
