EXPLANATION OF NAMES OF TREES. 121 
in the Northern Provinces. According to Sran. JULIEN 
(Weéthode pour déchiffrer les noms sanscrits des livres chinois, 
P- 171) pin p‘o is an equivalent of vimbam, which has been 
identified with Br, ‘yonia grandis, a cucurbitaceous plant. 
Dr. Erret, however r, in his //undbook of Chinese Buddhism, 
‘gives 48 as the Chinese a for malika or Jasminum. 
Ch, XXXII, 35, writes AE nai or HH pin kuo, and 
figures, it seems, a large apple. Pin kuo in North China i is 
the common name for apple. Many years ago the late 
French bishop Mer. Deuapace told me that in the Province 
of Chekiang the na/ is a common fruit, and that it is neither a 
plum nor an apple, but a fruit peculiar by itself. In Japan 
es, character is applied to the quince. Aman. exot., 800, 
3, dai, Malus cotonea, fructu inediocri, rotundo, compresso, 
vulga kara nas (i.e, Py yrus sinica), Comp. also Phon <0, 
LXIY, 2, 2; drawing not identified. 
#., 221, family AR, with good figure of tye Malus, L. The 
names of the AA ya not found. 
The figures to S., XI, 32, and P,, XXX, 15, and Sal 174, 
agree. Sm., 127, Kempferia, Alpinia, etc. ? 
The Sanskrit name p‘in p‘o is mentioned as a synonym. 
E., 285, family $k &, with figure of a Citrus, and # ft 
among the synonyms. < 
_ Stp., 1829, Pyrus Malus, L., Pf ft. 
Pi 123, = aie He ill with figure of Fasminum, has * x 
as a Synonym 
87.— gy Liu; BRE Lin i ) oe 
a> Pio <A mountain tree. The fruit resembles a pear, : 
ls acid and sweet, the stone is hard. This fruit is brevet? : 
% Hit Kiao chi (Cochin-China). _ 
KKE.P., LXVII, 20 :—The liu tree is iemuoed | in the 
Nan fang ts‘ao mu chuang [8rd century]. Tt produces a 
fruit as large as a plum and of an acid taste 5 but preserved 
th honey it tastes well. ‘The King yang I wu chi (Botan, 
+ No, ana! ies that the Mu tsz‘ is a tree ening: in the 
