PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 239 
P., XVILb, 20, pan hia. A poisonous plant. The roots 
| (tubers) used in medicine. Description not characteristic. 
Trifoliate leaves. 
According to Hanspury [Science Papers, 262] who examined 
the Chinese drug pan hia, the small tubers sold in the 
apothecaries’ shops of Shan ghai under this name belong to 
Pinellia tuberifera, Tenore, an <Aroidea. Hansury figures 
the tubers. Tararinow, Cutal. med. sin., p. 1, pan hia, Radix 
Ari macrouri, Bge., which is the same as Pinellia tuberifera. 
_ It seems to be a common plant in China. Leaves and tubers 
figured in Ch., XXIV, 28, 30. 
So moku, XIX, 2, 42 B, Pinellia tuberifera. 
£., 136, family 26 B. Figure, copy of S., 1V, 3, a Pinellia, 
not ‘uberifera, but another undetermined, with one sagittate leaf. 
The figure shows one dot on the leaf which my specimens (from 
Mount Tien tai in Chekiang Province) have not. 
The figure to P., XVII4, 20, indicates P. tuberifera. C., 973- 
Fap., 1638. 
The name is also given to Pinellia pedatisecta, Schott., in Sze- 
chuan, 
A., XV, 181, Arisema Loureiri, Bl., and Aris. cochinchinense, Bl. 
Sm., 149 [comp. 22, 26] also Aris. ternatum and Arum macrorum. 
Fap., 209, Arisema japonicum, Bl., K i H. 
e 31G, io ringens, Schott., re] Bk. 
mn 8tt, = | serratum, Thbg., DE ph. 
ey F is Thunbergii, Bl., KB mz. 
| 43. Meng. Lage says, regarding this plant, mentioned 
in the Shi king, that it is a lily called the “ mother-of-pearl ” 
from the appearance of its shining bulbous roots, or, as others — 
say, from that of its flower. It is the Fritillaria Thunbergit. 
Many medical qualities are ascribed to the root, among them 
: that of dissipating melancholy. 
Shi king, 88 :—I will ascend that mound with the seep 
e de, and gather the mother-of-pearl lilies. 
