298 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Other Chinese commentators take the tang ti of the Shi 
to be a kind of plum. Lu xt says it is the same as the M4 
ya li (grape plum), also called 9€ fj tso mei (sparrow-plum 
and HP 2s ch‘e hia li (plum under the cart). It grows 
in the mountains, its flowers are both white and red, The 
fruit ripens in the sixth month, it is as large as a plum 
and edible. 
LeeGe agrees with this view that the tan g ti was a kind | 
of plum, for evidently from the text of the Shi it may be 
concluded that it is akin to the peach and the plum. 
Aronia asiatica = Amelanchier Canadensis, Torr. et Gray, var. 
Japonica. Fap., 132, with Chinese name Fk #¥. It occurs in 
Chekiang Province on the Tien-tai mountain, a beautiful tree 
when in flower. Fruit not seen. 3 
476.—% Chiang ti. Leaee calls it the cherry. ee 
Shi king, 250 :—The flowers of the cherry tree (chang ti : 
are they not gorgeously displayed ? 260 :—Flowers of the 
cherry tree. In this passage the Chinese text has only the 
first character of the name # 2% ¥H (chang flowers). | 
The Rh ya [306] has # He or #R. Kvo P*o explains 
that the fruit resembles the ying t*ao (cherry). . 
Lu kt says :—According to the Shuo wen the ch'ang b 
or t is the same the & #t pai ti or white ti. The fruit 
resembles the plum (l/) but is smaller, of the size of a 
yeng tao (cherry) and of a white colour. It is now eultival 
in the government gardens (‘ [§]). There is also t 
Tp HE chi ti (ved t/). It resembles the white t. The leaves 
ure like those of the ts‘: ya or spiny elm (Hemiptelea) | 
rather orbicular. The fruit is red like that of the y# 
{see 474] but smaller; it ripens in the fifth man | 
tree i 18 very common in the north-western provinces. 
Lt Sat-cuen makes this tree to be the same as the yt 
Prunus japonica, bat writes 4 Ht tary ti instead of i te 
