92 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Ma lan is to be referred. The ancient Chinese commentators 
quoted in P., XVI, 74, article lan, are in contradiction as 
to the identification. 
E., 105, family 8. Figure probably of Polygonum tinctorium, 
Lour. 
A., XV, 125, 169. Sw.,116. Fap., 1717. 
179.—#k ¥ Jz FE. Unknown to the Chinese commentators. 
180.—"* Hu; $4 # 7% huang (earth yellow). 
Kuo P‘o :—Another name is fj fi 77 sui (earth marrow, 
Kuang ya). In Kiang tung it is called Hu. 
Hine Prxe :—The Pen ts‘ao gives, besides the above names, 
the name # Pa (in other editions fy A‘). T‘ao Huna-KIne 
says it grows at 7§ Jk Wei ch‘eng (now Hien yang hien, : 
in Southern Shensi). 
P., XVI, 1, fh HE Ti huang. The ancient authors say 
that the plant has large, wrinkled leaves, covered with hairs — 
tubular flowers resembling those of chi ma ( Sesamum), | 
- purplish red or -yellow. Fruit a capsule resembling that of 
the Lien k‘iao (Forsythia, v. 120) and containing small seeds. 
The root looks like a man’s hand; it is of a yellow colour, 
succulent, used in medicine. The young leaves are eaten. | 
At Peking Ti huang is Rehmannia glutinosa, Lib. The 
above description agrees. Good drawings of the plant in the 
Kin Iwang, LIM, 3, and in Ch., X1, 8. The latter figures 
bets varieties, one with voluminous roots. In some parts of 
China Rehmannia is cultivated for the yellow colouring 
vies of the roots. See Du-Hatpg, La Chine, 1, 26, and 
He a Chine, III, 340. The ti huang figured in the 
pipet like Leontodon tararaeum, L. ‘ 
hee ss a ty Hb Aehenawnia glutinosa, Libs i 
pp ? aan, ( apen). A third Eastern Asiatic spe es 
a. £taselzkii, grows in Southern Shensi. i 
| EZ, 137, family HD i, with a good figure. 
S.,1, 7, has two different figures, 
