174 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Ia Sur-cuen in P. [J. ¢.] states that the wu tsing, a 
vegetable with yellow flowers, is called man tsing in the north 
of China. oy 
~W.D., 1040, says that the man tsing is a kind of round 
turnip, whose tuber is above ground and green coloured, — 
common at Peking ; a second sort, the Ff ES 4 kiai man tsing— 
has its white tuber under ground. 1 may observe that 
Winans’ turnip with the tuber above ground is not what 
the people at Peking call man tsing, W. means the cabbage- 
turnip, Kohl-rabi, Brassica oleracea caulorapa, with a round 
fleshy swelling of the stem near the ground, which is much 
cultivated in North China. Its popular name is pie la — 
This is, it seems, the plant meant in the figure [Ch., IV, 24] 
under ff # kan lan or AE p'ei lan, The wu tsing or man 
‘sing is veprésented Ch., LII, 60. This is, as I have already 
stated, the rape, Brassica rapa, L. It is not grown to a 
great extent at Peking. p’IncarviLLE, in his list of Peking : 
plants, calls the man tsing “navet” (turnip). By kéa? man— 
sing or mustard rape, WILLIAMS means probably a mustard 
plant with large fleshy roots, of which I shall speak 
farther on, eee 
— Amen, evot., 822, BE busei vulgo wona, Rapum sativum 
Totundum. Idem radice longa. Under the same Chinese 
name, in Stgponp’s Syn. plant. weon. jap. [278] Brassiea 
rapa, Japonice halma, Copiose colitur. é 
In the Chou li (I, 109] where the provisions of the 
table of the Son of Heaven are detailed, pickled taing's 
mentioned. (Heng Sz‘ ) 
-NUNG explains it by man tsing, ane 
Bior translates “marinades de grande moutarde.” aed | 
{sing was one of the seyen vegetable pickles [v. 376, note]. : 
V. supra, 105. 
Jap, 373, Brassica campestris, L., aie ¥.- 
me a8 $74, » chinensis, L., io} 8 - 
» 375, - » - oleracea, ES; me. 
