EXPLANATION OF NAMES OF HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 89 
The above name $& 3% Ling t‘iao is given in the Pen ts‘ao 
king as a synonym for 38 #& Ts‘z wei. P., XVIIIa, 29, 
ts*z wet, also ling tao and BE ZF Ling siao. The ancient 
authors describe it as a plant, wild in the mountains and 
cultivated, climbing on trees ; serrate leaves ; flowers of the 
size of the flowers of the # 4h Kien niu (Pharbitis) as 
large as a cup, orange coloured, dotted ; the fruit is a pod . 
ag inches long; the seeds resemble the fruit of the elm 
(winged). 
Ling siao at Peking is the name for Tecoma (Bignonia) 
grandiflora, Del., with which the above description agrees. 
The flowers are much used asa medicine. Ch. XXIL, 25, 
good drawing. 
Amen. exot., 856, BE 8, vjotsio is Bignonia grandiflora, 
the same figured in Banks’ Icones Kempferi, tab. 21. The 
same plant is represented in the Phon zo, XXVI, 18, 19, 
sub 3% I cannot account for the name ts‘z wei (purple 
wel)’ given to the plant, nor for the white flowered ling 
Hao of the Rh ya. Bignonia grandiflora has orange coloured 
. 
166.—2E Ht Mei tsung ; JK AB Shui sheng. 
-Kvo P‘o :—It grows in water, whence the name. 
| 167. —ft Wei; HB i Ch‘ui shui (drooping to the water). 
Kvo P‘o; wale grows by the edge of the water, whence the 
Tame, P., XXVII, 26, Vicia. [V. infra, 378.] 
£., 63, family ik. Good figure of a Vicia. 
168. — jE Pi; lj fi Shan ma (mountain hemp). 
Kuo Po Bene as the common cultivated ma or hemp, 
: but ' Browing wild in the mountains. 
: E., 39, p. 17, family Hf. The figure indicates perkars an 
_Unrtica. (V. infra, 388.) eas 
7 The Kuang ya writes this name JE BE ave! wei. 
