PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. B17 
at £., 113, family Pal ej. with good figure of Vitis vinifera, and 
Iinames. S., XI, 18. : 
E., 142, family BA BA, with good figure of a wild grape. 
V. supra, 453, 182. 
493.—F8 #8 Chiang ch‘u. Name of an ode in the Shi king. 
Leer says that ch‘ang ch‘u is the Carambola tree. 
217.—In the low, wet grounds is the carambola tree,: soft 
and pliant are its branches. : 
This plant is mentioned in the Rh ya [198]. Kuo P*o 
says it is the 26 Bk yang Hao (goat’s peach). The same is 
said in the Shuo wen. 
Lv kt:—The ch‘ang. chu is now called yang tao. Its 
leaves are long and narrow, its flowers of a purplish red, and 
its branches so weak, that when they are more than a foot 
long, they. go creeping along on the grass. The people 
remove the rind of the stem near the root, after placing it m 
_ hot ashes, and make pencil-tubes of it. 
A notice of the same plant is found in P., XVIII#, 37, 
_ under the head of 2E WE yang tao, which is identified there 
with the chang ch‘u of the Shi king and the Rh ya. The scare 
— yang tao is from the Pen ts‘ao king. Ut Sui-CHEN describes 
— itasa plant with a weak ereeping stem of the thickness of a 
finger, large leaves like the palm of the hand, white ( wore) 
on the under side, resembling those of the Bahmeria but 
Youndish. The branches when steeped in water i at 
viscid, Ch, [XXII, 42, 43] under the name of yang. tao, 
figures two quite different herbaceous plants ; bad drawings. 
"The yang tao of P. is certainly not Aver rhoa 
Carambola, and the ancient commentators have also not 
Meant to identify the ch‘ang ch‘u of the Classies ‘with the 
Carambola, a tropical tree, which succeeds well in the 
southern provinces of China, but was hardly even known m 
the north. Wiitiams [ Dict., 28] and Leaqr have npcite 
misled by the name yang t‘ao, which at Canton is applied 
