200 BOTANICON SINICUM, 
for distinct varieties. That with a long fruit tapering towards 
the upper end (the stalk) is 4 hw; it is sweet ; that having — 
a short fruit with a large belly is the $4 p‘ao. The je hu 
resembles the p‘ao but is of a more globular shape. 
At Peking the name 4 F hu tsz‘ is applied toa Lagenaria 
with a large club-shaped fruit from 2 to 3 feet long. The — 
varicties of the bottle-gourd with smaller fruits, pear-shaped 
or oblong and narrowed in the middle (with a J& or waist 
as the Chinese say) are called $% RF hu lu. 
See with respect to the bottle-gourd P., XXVIII, 4, 
6,9. Compare also Amin, exot., 810, 811, So moku, XX, 
46, 47, and Phon co, LU, 17-23, where different varieties — 
of the bottle-gourd, cultivated in Japan, are described and — 
figured under the above-mentioned Chinese names. pe 
Lagenaria vulgaris, L., Mh and 20 other names, v. 2, 47. 
5, Sy 3Hs 4.; XV, epee PV, 199i)! Jap. 133%. 
385.—Ft i Kuo lo. Luage calls it the heavenly gourd, and 
says that in the Japanese plates it is the musk melon. | 
Shi king, 236 :—The fruit of the heavenly gourd would be 
hanging about our eaves, | 
Comp. the Rh ya [23]. Kuo P*o calls this plant Kh — 
Hien kua or heavenly gourd. | 3 
K‘une Yive-ra says :—According to the 2th ya, it is the 
fruit of the f£ HE hua lou, but Lr Siw says that the name is— - 
applied to the seeds. The Pen ts‘ao says the kuo lo has” eS 
leaves like the hua (gourd). They come out two and two, . 
Opposite to each other. It is a twining plant. The flowers, 
appear in the sixth, the fruits in the seventh month. The 
fruit is like a gourd. 
P., XVIla, 34 | Kua lou| :—The ancient authors quoted 
there describe it as a climbing plant with lobed leaves, pale g 
yellow flowers resembling those of the Aw lu (Lagenaria). — 
Giglonlas orange-coloured fruit of the size of a fist. The root 
