210 BOTANICON SINIGUM. 
Dolichos hirsutus, kudsu ¥% or $#% Pp (the second character= 
flour). Planta sponte crescens, linteum, amylum, funes, 
pabulumque equorum profert. 
So moku, XIU, 25, 26, % Pueraria Thunbergiana. 
&£., 111, family Ss, with figure of Pueraria Thunbergiana, Bth. 
Figure is copy of S., I, 18, where two are seen. The other 
__ may be of Pachyrhizus angulatus, Rich. 
C., 599, 600, 601. A., XV, 146. Sm., 88. H., 176. : 
891.—#F Chu. Lecce [Shi king, 209] says it is deseribed — 
sa species of hemp, a perennial, and not raised every year 
from seed. In the Japanese plates it is evidently the 
Boehmeria or nettle from which grass-cloth is made. But 
as the radical of the above character indicates, this is not 
the name of the plant itself but of the fabric woven of its — 
fibres. The Shuo wen refers it erroneously to the 9 (which, — 
as we have seen, is Abutilon) and says that the fine cloth 
made of it is called # ts‘uan, the coarser £ chu. Later 
authors take these fabrics to be derived from the a ch'u 
plant, which is Boehmeria nivea, Hook & Arn. This latter 
name ch‘u for the grass-cloth plant appears in the Pie lu 
[5th century] but it was much earlier in use. [ V. infra, 458). 
Shi king, 208 :—The moat at the east gate is fit to steep 
the Bochmeria (¥}). 
Lv K1:—The $#¥ chu is a kind of hemp (ma). Numerous 
stems come out from the same root, which is perennial, and in 
spring young plants shoot forth again without being raised 
from seed. In #) JH King chou (Hukuang) and # 
Yang chou (Chekiang, Anhui) there are three crops in one 
year. Now the government raises this plant in gardens. 
An iron or bamboo knife is used to strip off the bark. After 
the thick outer bark has been scraped off, they get to the soft 
but tough fibres of the inner bark, which are boiled and then 
twisted and manufactured into cloth (#7). This fabric 
Used for garments all over southern China fH if (Nan yiie)- : 
