PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 267 
-T‘ao Hune-Kine calls this plant F- ge WH, ts‘ien sui lei (a 
- thousand years liana. Under this name it is spoken of in 
 P., XVILb, 42. It is figured in Ch., XXII, 50. It seems 
to be a Vitis. 
Phon zo, XXXII, 3, F- BE Hi, Vitis fleauosa, THBG. 
453.—$R Lien. Leace says, regarding this plant, men- 
tioned in the Shi king :—Convolvulus, probably the Tpomea 
_ pentadactylis, a creeper found abundantly in Hongkong, and 
called by the common people wu chau lung, the five-clawed 
dragon. Shi king, 186 :—The conyolyulus spreads all over 
the waste. 
According to the Shuo wen, this plant is the same as the 
B % pai lien (white lien) of the Pen ts‘ao king. 
Lv x1 :—The lien resembles the kua lou (in its leaves), but 
the leaves are smaller and more abundant (kua low is 
Trichosanthes, vy. supra, 23). The fruit is black, like the 
: RK yen ya (a vine with edible fruit), not edible. In 
: Hf HH Yu chou (Northern Chili) they call it & JR wu Ju. 
The boiled leaves and stems are employed for feeding cattle, 
to remove fever. 
‘=P. XVIIId, 6, pai lien. The large white root of the plant 
is used as a medicine. Ch., XXII, 46. Bad drawing. 
So moku, IV, 17, fy BR, Vitis serianvfolia, Bge. This is a 
common plant in the mountains of North China. Its leaves 
are palmatisect, decompound. : 
V. supra, 182. Fap., 2373, itis serianefolia, Bge., =| 4 and 
HK FB WE. feed ae 
Fap., 2374, Vitis vinifera, L., a a. 
» 2368, ,, heterophylla, Thbg., #E WW B- 
. » 2369, ,, inconstans, Miq., Hi GR. -‘V. supra, 182. 
—454—FB Toor ni. Shi king, 211. Lecae calls it the 
Medallion plant. The character is properly the name of the 
‘Medallion pheasant, Tragopan satyrus [Lecce]. : 
