108 - _BOTANICON SINICUM. 
together opposite; fruit small, globular like the 4+ as fF 
niu li tse (Prunus), at first green, when ripe black. The 
wood is hard, the sap of it, when cooked, becomes red. 
P., XXXVb, 20, H a sung yang (pine poplar) or #R F A 
Liang tsz‘ mu, Tke first name is explained by the timber 
resembling that of the pine, the trunk that of the poplar. e 
Cu‘en Ts‘ane Kt [8th century] says that the tree grows in : 
Kiangnar. The figure given of the Liang tsz* mu in the Kiu og 
huang, LIV, 9, is worthless, only leaves figured ; it is said 
there to grow in the mountains of Mi hien in Honan. The 
drawing representing the same tree, in Ch: XXXV, te ; 
shows a tree with small, globular fruit, See also W.D., 499, a 
PE lai, and 525 liang. 7 . 
The Phon zo, LXXXIV, 24, 25, figures under Js #8 or 
FX Hi, a tree not identified by Francuer, but Dr. Geerts’ : 
Japanese Woods gives $f and #b BE #} (tree with rough — 
- leaves) as the Chinese names for Aphananthe aspera, Planch. 
Ulmacee (Homoioceltis aspera, Bl. Prunus aspera, Thbg.) 
‘This is also the Celtis muku of Stmpoip, Syn. plant econ. 
Jap., 168 : Folia ad levigandum lignum. Fructus edules. 
This may also be the tree figured in Ch. 
£., 272, family ki, with figure of a tall tree. is 
Fap., 838, Ehretia serrata, Roxb., #% #8, which name is 4 
Synonym, — ug 
233.— fh Lie ; tii Rh. 
Kvo Pfo:—A tree resembling th h oak, 
bs 8 g the hu su (an 
v 535) but - ii isd 
edible, N, of smaller size. Frait like a small a 
ime. Now in Kiang tung the people call it fig BE rh 
(rh chestnuts) peop 
LV. infra, 495, small chestnuts, ] 
: - : eee #8. Unknown to the Chinese commentators. ae 
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