232 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
So moku, I, 4, same Chinese name, C. longa, var. macro 
phylla, Miq. 
In P. [l.c., 67] an obscure account is given of the pla 
called yi kin nang. 1t is there said to be a foreign plant 
of Western Asia or India with fragrant flowers. 
- Buddhist priest Hugn tHsanc mentions it in the mountains 
of Hindukush and in Kashmir [Brat’s Si yu ki, 1, 54, 120, 
tae TET 
The two plants ya sin and yi kin hiang are. coun 
confounded by Chinese authors. Ya kin hiang is not Cu 
cuma, as Dr. Erren, in his /Tandbook of Chinese Buddhis 
states, but an entirely different plant. Wuii1ams [Di 
1139] thinks that this name denotes the Sumbul root. 
The drawing of the plant in Ch., XXV, 38, seems to be 
product of imagination. The Phon zo figures [XI, 5, 6, 
under % & , several plants, an Jris and Tulipes, it seems. 
The Chinese commentators seem to agree that the pla 
yu of the Classics was the yt kin, not the yit kin hiang. + 
Rh ya i quotes a passage from the Shi king [445] where 
sacrificial wine is called BM He huang liu (yellow liquid a 
explains this name by the yellow colour of the cureuma 
Z., 163, family te &, figure may be of Curcuma. The. 
‘to P., XIV4, differs w idely, 
F4p., 719 [v. supra, 479), | 
409.—The character 2 yin occurs in the Classics 
different meanings, ae the Shi king [884, 423] we 
aH Kt, which Lear translates, according to Mao’s 
Cue’ 8 interpretations, by (flowers) of a deep yellow. In 
Corr. Anal. [199] yin stands for $F (to weed). In MEN 
it has the same meaning. But the principal meaning ‘ 
character yin seems to refer toa fragrant plant, and in t 
sense we find it in the Hia Calendar and in the L 
Doveras translates yin, on the authority of WILLIAMS, 
rue, Sess by rice, 
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