316 BOTANICON SINICUM,. 
Kamprer (Aman. exot., 805, 806] Aff si, vulgo kaki, F 
hortensis, fructu ossiculato eduli, folio Pyri, ete. 
P., XXX, 17, shi. Ch, XXXII, 33. Kin huang, 
LVII, 3; good drawing. . | 
E., 234, family fifi, with good figure. Fap., 809. 
Fip., 810, Diospyros Lotus, L. [V. supra, 484.] 
492.—§4 Yu. Leacr translates this character corretly 
hy grapes. It denotes wild vine. . 
Shi king, 231 [“ Life in Pin”]:—In the sixth mont 
they eat the grapes. 
Mao explains yi? by $f HA ying vii, as does also the & 
wen. The Kuang ya calls it #§ HA yen yi or BL ying she, 
P., XXXII, 9, ying yt. The Chinese authors quoted 
[7th and 9th centuries] say that the ying yi, resembles the 
ee pou “ao or common grape, but the berries are smaller. 
They are of a sour and sweet taste and are also celle 
BF Hi Bi ye p‘u tao, wild grape. 
There are in the Peking mountains two kinds of “a 
grape with edible black berries of a sweet taste and the 
of black currants, the Vitis labrusea, I, var. jieifolia, Bees 
and the V. bryonivfolia, Bge. Both these vines are 
ye p'u tao by the natives. 
Compare under the above names the drawings Ch., XXNIL 
5, and Kin huang, LVI, 12. oe 
Sresotp, Syn. plant, weon, jap., 241 :— Vitis flewuosa, Thbg. 
nobudoo, Bk H.. Sponte ubique crescit, fruetibus parvis, 
nigris, sapidis onusta. Horrm. & Scuures, 624. Same 
Chinese name. Vitis ficifolia, Bge. Phon 20 [LXXI 3] 
same Chinese name, Vitis, not determined by FRANCHET 
The true vine, Vitis rinifera, L., now extensively cultivated in 
northern part of China, was introduced into China from Western A\ 
about B.C, 125, and is known since that time under the name bg 
[See Botan. sin. 1, 25.) 
