264 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
is Bignonia grandiflora or Tecoma grandiflora, Del., a beautiful 
climbing plant with large orange-coloured flowers, common 
in Chinese gardens. [Tor further particulars, v. supra, 165. 
V. note to 354, Vicia hirsuta, Koch. The figure to P., XXVI 
27, looks more like Lathyrus. . % 
V. supra, 164, Tecoma. 
449,—The plants niao and ni lo, mentioned together in the 
Shi, are correctly identified by Leaer with the mistle 
and the dodder. 
Shi king, 390:—They are your Avett all assembled, 
they are like the mistletoe (néao) and the doddee (nt 
growing over the pine and the cypress. Z 
Mao explains the #§ niao (pronounced also tiao) by # He 
ki sheng which is a name for the Sees Ai ~means 
“to lodge (on trees)”; sheng “to grow.” CHENG His 
refers to the Rh ya [262]. ae 
_ Lu x1 likewise says the niao is the same as the ki shen 
but the description he gives of the plant is not correct: 
Leaves resembling those of the Be ff tang lu (P hytolacea 
fruit like the 7 7 fu p‘en tsz‘ (Rubus), of a dar 
colour and a pleasant sweet taste. 
The account given of the plant in question in P. [XXX 
13-15], where ancient authors are quoted, leaves no dow 
that by ki sheng a Viscum or Loranthus is meant. I 
said there that the plant grows as a parasite amon, 
branches of various trees (mulberry tree, pine tree, 
: liquidambar) and that its root is imbedded in the su 
of the branches. Roundish, thick leaves, white flowers, 
berries like small peas. Ch, XXXII, 35, #®E i 
sang shang ki sheng (ki sheng on a mulberry tree). + 
rude drawing seems to represent a Loranthus. Hext 
l.c., 892:—The above Chinese name is applied in 
to Loranthus jadoriki, Sieb., and other species. 
