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gardens (4 ’& fj #@. Lace translates :—Wealthy men are 
fond of planting it in the gardens. Kuan ytian may also be 
translated by “ gardens of the officers *). They call it Fr Be 
mu mé or tree honey, also #4 #4 chi hou. 
flovenia dulcis may be intended in the above vague 
description. In P., mi mi and chi kou are given as names 
for this tree. But the name Ry A how ku in Japan as well as 
in China is applied to an Mer. [P., XXXVI, 40. Ch. 
XXXV, 50]. 
Amen, exot., 781, Fa) FP ojo, vulgo tsuge. Buxus arborescens, 
ete. Maximowicz thinks that this is probably Tex subpuberula, 
Mig. The Chinese drawing in Ch. looks rather like 7. 
aquifolium, : 
E., 306, family fit FF, with figure of a small tree armed with 
long spines. Leaves entire, certainly not Z/ex cornuta. 
Sm., 114, 
x, 251, v. 489. 
Z., 154, family Jit . mentions iy i as a synonym of 
Ephedra. 
Of Ticince with Chinese names :— ae 
Fab: 1127, Lex cornuta, LAdl., iy vig (I if). 
» 1130, ,, integra, Thog, #8 # & FF. 
333%, . latifolia, Thbg., R He 8. 
» 1134, ,, pedunculosa, Mig., & F- 
» 1138, ,, Sicboldi, Miq., 3 $5 #L- 
491.—The Ai’ sh? is mentioned in the Li ki [I, 461] among 
the fruits eaten by the ancient Chinese. [J% supra, 
484, hote.| ' The Shiwo ren explains shi by red fruit. 
~~ This ‘is ‘the Chinese persimmon, Diospyros. According to 
- Navpry [Remarques au sutet des Plaqueminiers] the numerous 
Varieties of this favorite fruit of the Chinese belong to two 
» weg D. sinensis, Blume, (D. Kaki, Lin, fil.) and D. 
 Schitze, Bge. The Japanese cultivate a third species; the 
4 Kampferi, Naudin, first described and figured by 
