236 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
P., XIII, 54, tu heng. The ancient authors describe it as” 
a small plant, resembling the $f 3 si sin. It has roundish 
leaves resembling in shape a horse’s hoof, violet flowers. 
Fruit of the size of a pea (bean). It contains small seeds. 
The fragrant root is used in medicine. The Taoists employ it 
for scenting clothes. The si sin is described P., XIII, 51 
The drawings of the tu heng and the si sin [Ch., VIII, 27, 
and VII, 25] both represent species of Asarum. LOUREIRO, 
Flora coch., 857, Asarum virginicum ; sinice si sin. Habitat 
ineultum in variis Sinarum provineiis. Henry [l.c., 151] aes 
Si sin is at Ichang Asarum Sieboldi, Miq., and [152] 5 3 # 
ma tt hiang (horse’s hoof fragrance), Asarum with large 
flowers. ; 
So moku, IX, 5, $8 FE Asarum Sieboldi, Mig.; I bidem, 
8, #E @, As. Blume?, Duch. — . 
Horrm. & Scuvntes [324] apply erroneously the above 
Chinese names for Asarum, tu heng and ma ti hiang, to 
Ligularia Kempferi. | 
V. supra, 156. Fap., 235, Asarum Blumei, Duch., #E fii. 
ow» ©6236, =, ~—>-- caulescens, Miq., $e SE SF. P 
» 237, 4, Sieboldi, Miq., #4 %F. . = 
415.—Be % Pili. Name of a plant mentioned in the 
Li sao [13]. Je fais des guirlandes avec les fleurs tombées— 
du pili. The Rh yai says that this is the same as We 
pi li in the Shan hai king, a plant which climbs on rocks _ 
and trees. When eaten it removes pain in the heart. 
Kuo Po says it is a fragrant plant. : ae 
The name pi Ui in China as well as in Japan is applied to 
one or several creeping species of Ficus. See P. XVII, 
40, 7K MH mu lien, which is another name for the plant; 
Ch., XX, 3, the plant figured is probably F, pumila, Le 
The Chinese name p¥ 3 in Japan is given to . pumila, 
according to Horrm. & Scuuurus; to F. erecta, THBG., 19 
