PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 215 
The ju l% is noticed in the Rh ya [22], where also other 
names are given. 
Lv xt :—The ju lé [other names quoted from the 2h ya] 
is also called fh ff ¢ Ade (earth’s blood). The people in 
#§ Ts‘i (Northern Shantung) call it #§ ts‘ien, in A JH Si chou 
(Northern Kiangsu) it is 4+ niu mang (ox creeper). 
Now the people cultivate it in gardens. 
The plant ¢s‘en, with which the ancient commentators 
identify the ju li of the Shi king, is the Rubia cordifolia, L., a 
common plant in the northern and central provinces of China. 
The root is used as a red dye in China and Japan like the 
root of our madder plant, 22. téinctorum, L. 
P., XVIII, 19, ts‘ien. Good drawing of the plant in Ch., 
XXII, 20. 
Amen. exot., 912 :—p Sen, vulgo akanni. Herba spitha- 
malis, vel pedalis, ramosa, procumbens, radice fibrosa, densa, 
foliis Nummulariz, infectoribus pro colore serviens. 
The same Chinese and Japanese name (a/ane) in SIEBOLD’s 
Syn. plant. @con. jap., 832, is applied to Queria trichotoma, 
ae Taunserc. Adhibetur Rubie nostratis adinstar_ tinctoria. 
But Queria trichotoma of TunG., is, according to Maximowicz, 
Wickstremia japonica, Mig. 1 suspect SteBoLD was mis- 
taken, all the more as the So moku LU, 64, and the Phon 20, 
XXIX, 18, both figure under # Bi, japonice akane, Rubia 
cordifolia. 
V. supra, 22. Jap. 1930, Rubia cordif., var. mungista, Miq., 
i Si, & BE. | 
894.—As has already been noticed [892] there is a passage — 
: in the Chou li stating that the superintendent of the plants 
used for dyeing is obliged to gather these plants i in spring 
and in autumn, 
_ Carne Hitay says that the following plants are meant :— 
1.—The 38 §% mao shon which is mentioned in the 2th ya 
[22]. The same as ju la or Rubia already spoken of. 
