PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 235 
The best comes from Shu or Sz‘ch‘uan. Judging from the 
description of the Chinese authors, this is an aromatic um- 
belliferous plant, probably an Angelica. See the drawings in 
the Kiu huang [XLVI, 31) and Ch. [XXV, 4]; umbelliferous 
plant. 
There is a passage in the 7’so chuan (315, 321] referring 
to the year B.C. 595:—Have you any spirits made from 
the hill-grass ? The Chinese text has only lj # 3%. The 
Chinese commentators say that the medicinal plant sung 
Ktung is meant, which is steeped in wine. 
SIEBOLD, Syn. plant. acon. jap., 254:—FB ¥B Sen kyo. 
Selinea? Colitur in usum officinarum. So moku, V, 2, under 
the above Chinese name, also Jif #, not determined. /d/dem, 
2,3, ABS) (large leaved ch‘uan kung) Angelica refracta. 
[See also the Phon zo, IX, 3, 4.] 
Synonym of supra, 89. 
413.—¥ AR Kao pen or #2 3% kao po. Both these names 
occur in the Shan hai king. Kuo P*o explains them by 
fragrant herb, 
P., XiVa, 12, kao pen, also $& AR FH kao pen hiang and 
other names. A plant much valued in ancient times for its 
fragrant root. It is said to resemble the kung k‘iung [412], 
_ and we may therefore suppose that it is an umbelliferous 
_ plant. The rude drawings of the plant [ Kiu huang, XLVI, 
> 3, and Ch, XV, 19] may well represent a plant of 
S . that order, Tarartnow, Catal. med. sin., 26, kao pen. Rad. 
|— Conii, s. Cicute ? 
: : So moku, V, 4, 3 AK, Nothosmyrnium japonicum, Mig. : 
This umbelliferoys plant is found in Japan, but it has also 
been collected by Father Davin in the Province of Kiangsi. 
See FRancuer, Plante Davidiane, I, 140. 
: Fap., 1500. ae 
114 — $k fj Tu heng, likewise a fragrant plant, mentioned 
WM the Shan hai king. [See also the Rh ya, 156.] 
