PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 197 
All the cueurbitaceous plants now cultivated for food in 
China are probably indigenous to the country, with the 
exception of the cucumber and water melon, which, as their 
Chinese names indicate, were introduced from the West." 
Leace is therefore wrong in using the term cueumber in his 
translation of the Li ki. | 
E., 44, 45, family JK, with figures of :— 
Benincasa cerifera, Savi., & JK also called 8 IS. ak in 
and Hp s. C., 1390-1392. Sm., 80. Fap., 1223. 
Cucurbita moschata, Duch., FR JI\, also called eh. 4, XV, 
A530. F, AAV Ov Son., 80. Japs 743: ‘ 
Cucumis Melo, L., var. $Fap., 709, C. conomon, Thhg., fas UN 
also FF I, Se M. Fap., 710, C. Mlexuosus, L., E23 fA I. 
Sm. 79. C., 1324. A. XV, 153, HY (if) I. P., XXXUI, r. 
_ Cucumis sativus, 1.., 4 IK or rail JR. 0S.) 41 20. * Pr. 16. 
2, XVIIL, 40. Compare Sm., 80. Fap., 712. 
Lufja cylindrica, Rom. [ Fap., 1333, L. petola, Ser.], - I or 
Ke, BM. KR. HM. SX, 51 CG, 1190. 
My 0, 153. . Si, 79, 
Momordica Charantia, L., 4 IN or $8 Es] Ke: i ii %- 
C., 628. A., XV, 153. Sm.,9tand 151. Pr., 80. Jap., 1450. 
- Thladiantha dubia, Bge., = IK or + I, SF tft BR. 
” HE IK, etc., 7. 152 and 386, [Jap., 2224, v. 152.) 
Cucumis Melo, ., Ht MR or HH IK. A., XV, 153. 
Citrullus. vulgaris, Schrad., 3] IK or E: BR. R K. 
A., XV, 153. Sm., 65. Fap., 607. 
1611 SHI-CHEN in P., XXVIII, 14, states that the BA IK hu hua or 
foreign hua, was brought to China from Western countries by the 
famous general CHANG K‘IEN [in the 2nd century B.C. See Botan. sin. 
T, p. 24]. In the 4th century the name Au kua was changed into 
huang hua (yellow hua) which is still the Chinese name for the cucumber 
in China and Japan. Ch., 1V, 48. So moku, XX, 38. 
The water melon, py wi si hua (Western melon) was introduced into 
China in the 10th century from the country of the Ki tan (Eastern 
Mongolia and Manchuria), The Ki tan had previously brought this fruit 
- from the country of the Hui ho (Uigurs). For further details see the Wu 
tai shi, quoted in K.K.F.P., UXVII, 16, and P., XXXIII,6. Ch. XXX, 
; 33° So we he, Xx, 43, ’ ’ ’ 
