. ie 
BOTANICON SINICUM. 
mountains of 3 fF Kiao kuang, 7 AB Wu p‘ing and MF 
Hing ku (all in Southern China); it flowers in the third 
month; the fruit, which resembles a plum, ripens in the 
eighth month and then becomes yellow ; it is of an acid and 
sweet taste, has a hard stone. 
288.—H8 Wai (Inui) ; $f HE WA IR Vai, tree with lange — 
leaves and black, : : 
Kvo P*o :—A variety of the Hii huai tree with large black — 
leaves is called wai (hua‘), ee 
The BR huat is Sophora japonica, L. [V. infra, 546]. — 7 
waz is noticed in the Shan hai king as a tree with red fruit oe 
as large as a quince, which is eaten and considered . 
. Strengthening, a 
P., XXXIV, 42, pi B luai hiang, also i Bt BE F tou lou x 
po luang. Lat Stt-cuny says :—A small tree, growing m the 2 
‘Mountains of Middle China and used for fuel. Long, pinnate, — 
Sreen fragrant leaves, serrated, not unlike thistle leaves. The 
root resembles that of the kou ki (Lycium) but is larger 5 very 
fragrant when burnt. Ch, XXXIV, 10, the former names, 
also Bi BE hua hiang ye (huait with fragrant leaves). 
Rough drawing, taken from the Kin huany, LIV, 22. Tree 
__ with pinnate leaves. Also Ch., XXXVIIL, 3, % HB lt 
Mang shu. Henry, 1. ¢., 131, says that this is the Platyearia o 
strobilacea, 8, & Z., in Hupei. This tree was first described — 
and figured by Linptey in the Journ, Hort, Soc., 1, (1846) 
P- 150, under the name of Fortunea sinensis. 1t had ig 
brought by R. Fortune from Chusan and N ingpo. See SI 
LZvcc., Flora Japon., IL, 87, tab. 149. Phon zo, LXXX1 
14, 15, BE Platyearia strobilacea, 
ae tiny 35S, 
family $f, with figure of Sophora and the names {rom 
the Rh Ja, : 
B48, family 
fruit, has Lou hou 
#, with figure of a plant without flowers < 
bo hiang asa synonym, Jap., 1657, Pls ade 
