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flower on each stem, whilst the Au: has five or six flowers 
on the same stem. 
I can also make nothing of the descriptions of the lan ts‘ao 
found in P. XIV), 75. A number of synonyms are 
given there, and it seems the authors confound several quite 
different plants. Jbidem, 78, the 7% BA tse lan is spoken of. 
In the So moku [XV, 55] BA BE is Lupatorium chinense, 
L., and, Zbidem [57] }% BA is also a Eupatorium. The 
Chinese drawings in Ch, XXV, 1 and 13, under the above 
Chinese names, seem also to be intended for Hupatorium, a 
- genus of the order Composite, of which six species are known 
in China. Although the flowers of Hupatorium exhale an 
odour which is not unpleasant, 1 do not believe that the 
famous perfume Jan of the ancient Chinese ean be 
referred to this plant. I agree with Wrtiams that the /an— 
must rather have been an orchidaceous plant, for even 
nowadays this name is applied to plants of this order, 
_ cultivated for the powerful fragrance of their flowers. Comp. 
_ Bripeman’s Chrest.. 452 :—Air plant, Aérides and Vanda 
FA BA tiao lan (suspended lun), Ja BA feng lun. See also 
Lourztro, Flora coch., 642 :—Aérides odorata, found in the 
forests of China. Henny [J. ¢., 456] :—Tiao lan in Hupei 
— Dendrobium nobile, Lindl. I am not aware whether this 
_ orchid is fragrant. But now the name lan is also extended to 
_ many other fragrant flowers. [See W.D., 501.] 
| Z., 81, family J, with three figures, an orchid (not aérédes), 
iz BW oan Umbellifera, and & w. Fap., 294, Aster trinervius, 
_Roxb., var. congesta, Fr. & S. : 7 
Fup. 913, Eupatorium chinense, L., Wi BE: 
» QI4, i Japonicum, Thbg., i W. 
S., XIL 5. Sm., 120. . 
|G 9E Dui is the name of another fragrant plant which 
_ Sceurs repeatedly in the Shan hai king and in the Li sao. 
_ Kvo Po explains that it is a kind of lan, and that some say 
