300 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
soft hairs; it has-a peculiar flavour. This is the Prunus 
tomentosa, Thbg. It is found wild and cultivated in the 
Peking mountains, and is well known also in Japan. 
P., XXX, 43, shan ying t‘ao, The downy appearance of 2 
the fruit noticed. Ch., XXXII, 18, shan ying tao. Bad — 
drawing not characteristic. eee 
Amen, exot., 799 :—}& Je, jo, 0, vulgo sakira, Cerasus 
flore simplici, fructu austero. This is Pr. pseudocerasus, — 
according to Maximowicz. [See also Horem, & ScHULTES, — 
466.] af 
The Chinese names 8 $k and Hg BE seem to be more Z 
generally applied in Japan to Pr. tomentosa, while lj BABE 
(mountain cherry) denotes Pr, pseudocerasus and also Pr ae 
incisa. [Comp. Sigs. & Zuce., Flora japon., 1, 51, tab. 22; 
Horru. & Scuutres, 468; Phon zo, LXVI, 5-8.] 
£., 279, family es Bk, with figure and all the names of supra, ; 
266. ; 
Mi, Al, 22, Sm, 68. Fap., 1782. 
Fap., 1786, Prunus tomentosa, Thog., Ke Pk- 
Prunus communis, Huds., is mentioned Faf., 1773, a8 8 pe. ae 
478.—7K [J Mu kuna, the tree-melon of the Classies, is still S 
the common Chinese name for the Quince, Cydonia sinensis, a 
Thouin, This fruit is oblong and of enormous size. : : 
Chow li, Tl, 581:—Ouvriers des ares. Le coignassier 
(78 JR). The wood of the quince tree used for making eet " 
[ See quotation in 501, note.} 7 
Shi king, 107 :—Mu kua, title of an ode. Lraae takes the a 
mu kua to be the Papaya, but he is mistaken ; the my te a 
of the Classies is undoubtedly the quince.” ce 
*3 Carica Papaya, L., the melon-tree, is a native of tropical anti a 
It is now cultivated everywhere in tropical Asia, and known also im o 
Southern China, Its large melon-shaped fruit is called mu hue 
at Canton, [See W.D., 466], The Ch., XXXI, 54, gives a good drawing 
of this tree under the name of & fan kua (foreign melon). ne 
