260 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
The passage in question reads {lJ jit 3 Hh 22 RW 
#8 2.) 3%, which understand to mean: it resembles 
the ma huang (Ephedra), has red flowers, pointed leaves. 
Its top is called small pees Kuo P*‘o says that the yao 
yao of the Rh ya is the i FR yaan chi. This latter name 
at Peking is applied to Polgala tenuifolia, Willd., and 
P. sibirica, L. P., X11b, 21, Drawings, Kiu huang, LIU, 
Ch, VU, 18. 
So moku, XUI, 8, i i&, Polygala japonica, Hout. This 
latter is also found in China. 
The Kuang ya identifies the yao of the Rh ya — 
#5 yu, Setaria [v. infra, 463]. 
Jap., 1680, Polygala sibirica, L., i ie: 
444.—F% T'ud or chu’. Correctly identified by Lrace with 
motherwort, Leonurus. [See the Rh ya, 25}. 
Shi king, 116:—In the valleys grows the motherwort, * 
scorched is it in the drier places. 
Lu K1:—The tui plant has a square stem, white flo 
which appear between the nodes (he means perhaps to say 
that the flowers are arranged in a whorl on the nodes. 
flowers of Leonurus are red). Some ancient authors 
# WH ania (this is an Artemisia), others fr # 
(mother’s help). The Pen ts‘ao terms it $§ BF ch‘ung a 
Liv H1w [1st century B.C.] calls it 5& % ch‘ou wet - : 
weed), 
P., XV, 24, ch‘ung wet. Ch. XI, 25. The drawing 
ch‘ung wei represents Leonurus sibiricus, L. 
So moku, XI, 41, # 2 BS or 3E EF, Leonurus sibir 
Fap., 1243, Leonurus macranthus, Max., pe 3K: oe 
: wt 89Gd, es sibiricus, L., Te ES a r Hf Hi. 
‘445,.—3% Lai. This character is met with in the Shi 
and in the Chou li. Lnaan translates it fe orach (amy 
also by “ useless plants.” 
