194 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
incerte figure, quam ex loci conditione induit ; folio graminis 
Parnassi_ membranaceo ; spicis floridis palmaribus ; floribus 
Lychnidis pumilis hexapetalis, vix oscitantibus. THUNBERG, 
Flora jap. 151, identifies this with D. japonica, as does also 
Sreporp, Syn. plant. weon, 74. So moku, XX, 59, 60, — 
same plant, wild and cultivated, under {lj 38. 
B 54, family ®, with five figures of Dioscoree. 
S., I, 20, two bad figures. C., 503, 1108.  d., XV, 177, 
D. oppositafolia, L. : 
H,, 412, a z. is Curcuma longa, L., in Canton. Jap. 719, 
A co C., 75. xe “fp is Fap., 1156, Lpomea heteracea, Leo 
Jap, 806, Dioscorea japonica, Thbog., ily 4% or 8 Ti. 
» 807, 4, guingueloba, Thhg., Wy CI fit - 
» 808, ,, sativa, L., JI] Be Re. 
380.—¥ Chi. This name appears among the articles of 
food enumerated in the Li ki [I, 461]. Lkacs translates it 
incorrectly by “lichens.” Evidently mushrooms are meant. — 
The Chinese commentators explain it by ARE (/ ungt 
growing on trees), [Comp. W.D., 53.] oe 
See also the Rh yu, 41. 
881.—% Kiang (Ginger),—This pleasant stomachic, uowi- 
days employed in China and Japan, when fresh, to spice 
dishes, and used in a preserved state as a sweetineat, Was 
well known to the Chinese in early times. . 
In the Li ki (1, 461] it appears among the articles of food : 
enumerated there, bidem, I, 135 :—Tsuna st (one of the — 
disciples of Confucius) said’:—When one during his mourning 
rites falls ill, and has to eat meat and drink spirits, there — 
must be added the strengthening flavours from vegetables 
and trees, meaning thereby ginger and cinnamon (fE hut)» 
_ Coxr. Anal. 97:—Confucius was never without ginge” 
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