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contains a white flour which is used in medicine, as is also 
the fruit. Figured Ch., XXII, 27. Kiu huang, LIII, 18. 
At Peking the kua low is the Trichosanthes Kirilowi/, 
Maxim., a cueurbitaceous plant spread over the whole of 
China. It is a beautiful plant, winding itself round the 
stems and branches of trees. Five-lobed leaves, fragrant 
white flowers beautifully fringed. In autumn the orange- 
coloured globular fruits of the size of a man’s fist hang grace- 
fully down from the branches on long slender stalks. The 
name kua lou may perhaps be also applied to other species 
of Trichosanthes. 
So moku, XX, 35 :—fE PE Trichosanthes japonica, Rgl. 
Phon zo, XXVU, 12, same Chinese name, 7%. japonica, 
and 11 tubers and fruit of Tr. multiloba, Miq. 
Bs, 151, family kG BE, has a figure of Zrichosanthes multiloba, 
Mig. S., HI, 20. P., XVIII, 34. Jap., 2225, Tr. japonica, Regel. 
£., 170, family Fy BR FF, with figure of Zrichosanthes palmata, 
Roxb. 
Some more Chinese names are given in :— 
Sup. +» 54, Actinostemma japonicum, Miq., Ay f i. 
» 1419, Melothria Regelii, Naud., FE Fe. 
»» 1056, Gynostemma cissoides, Bth. & H., ay itm #. 
B86. XE MK Wang kva, the royal melon, as Lecce 
_ translates, 
LG hi, T, 268 [ Yue ling]:—First month of summer. The 
royal melons grow. Cena Hian explains wang kua by 
EE pi kie, and refers to the Calendar of the Hia [56], 
Where we read:—In the 4th month EAB [Doveras 
translates] reign the grass and the yu weed. I do not agree 
with Dovoras’s 8 translation. It seems to me that Brot, who 
translates: “la grande courge wang fou fleurit,” is nearly 
‘correct, Evidently this - Sentence in the Zia Calendar 
tl month, corresponds to the aboy e-quoted i in the Yue ling, 
st month of summer, where 1 no doubt a cucurbitaceots 
