PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 309 | 
The #¥ mH, quoted in K.D., says regarding the Be: —1t 
resembles the tsao (jujube), but is very thorny. Its wood 
is hard and of a red colour. As a shrub it forms thickets, 
and the people use it for fences. After many years the 
shrub loses its thorns, and then may attain the height of a 
fsio tree. There is a variety of the ki, the wood of which 
is white. This is called & BR pa’ ki. Another variety, 
which produces sour fruits, is called HR. BE rh Ai or swan tsao 
[v. supra, 484]. 
From the aboye: account we may conclude that the ki of 
the Classies was a Jujube. 
: Ps, SKXVI, 24, suan tsao or ki; ibidem, 26, Gy RR pat hi. 
Ch., XXXII, 28. Kin huang, LY, 2, rude drawings. 
Phon zo, LXXXVII, 13, & #, and 14, & RR Drawings 
not characteristic. 
436.—#§ Ka is one of the Chinese names applied to oranges. 
. WD. [457] says:—It comes nearer the generic term for 
_ Oranges than any other word. 
Shu king, 108 [Tribute of Yu] :—Provinee of Yang chou 
_ (Chekiang, Anhui, Kiangsi). Small oranges (A#) and pume- 
loes [yu, see the next] produced there. K‘une AN-KUO 
explains :—The small sort is kit, the large is yu. | 
Chou li, I, 460 :—See the quotation infra, 488. ITI, 581:— 
Ouvriers des ares, L’oranger a petites oranges (si) employé 
pour faire le corps de l’are [see the quotation in 501, note }. 
The &a is repeatedly mentioned in the Shan hai king. 
The Shuo wen says the ki is a fruit of Kiangnan (Kiangsi) 
| furnished by an evergreen tree. 
—- Witrtaats says that $e F ha tse is a large bitterish 
a °range or bigarade common in the north. I have seen this ; 
is cultivated at Peking in pots, and is the bitter orange. 
But the fruit brought to Peking from the southern provinces 
