324 BOTANICON SINICUM, 
tree which in Northern China furnishes the Chinese pepper 
is the Zanthorylon Bungei, Planch., a tree of middle size, 
very spiny, bearing in autumn dense clusters of small red 
berry-like capsules of an aromatic, pungent taste ; the leaves 
are likewise fragrant. This tree grows wild in the mountains 
and is also much cultivated. It is called 7£ 4 hua tsiao in 
the popular language, but its original name is # Hq Ts‘in tsiao. 
This name is found in the Pen ts‘ao king and is derived — 
from the mountain range of Ts‘in-ling which divides 
valleys of the rivers Han and Wei in Southern Shensi. This 
is most probably the pepper of the Classics, although there 
are, it seems, several species of Zanthowxylon in different parts 
of China, which yield this spice. Several kinds of peppé 
trees are described in P., XXXII, 1-8, and figured in Ch, 
XXXIII, 40, 41. [See also Henny, l.c., 42-45]. 
Amen. exot., 892, HR seo, sansjo. Piper japonicu: 
Detailed description and figure. This is Zanthoaylon piper 
tum, DC.,a shrub. Stesoup, Icon. jap. ined., Z. piperitum 
RR Hh. Phon zo, UXX, 2-5, various species of Zanthoaylon 
_ and their Chinese names. i 
E., 250, family $f, with five figures. The first a Zanthoxylon. 
S., VII, 2. Sm., 234. C., 492. _ The distinctions of H., Biss: 
are untenable. cae 
Fap., 2391, Zanthoxylum ailanthoides, S. & Z., RR we 7 
» 2392, ij planispinum, S. & Z., i ¥ AR 
» 2393, * piperitum, DC., BS AR. . 
» 2394, * schinnifolium, S. & Z., WE Re an 
498.—There is a passage in the Li ki [I, 462, Nei ts 
“Diet of the Ancient Chinese”) which Lrace rende 
With the three victim animals they used pepper ** 
character translated by pepper is #7. CHena HUAN and the 
Shuo wen explain it by Pt ZEW (fried chu yit). 
The Shuo wen says the chu yi is a kind of tsiao (Zantho 
lon). [See also the Rh ya, 329.] There are three differ 
_ plants to which the name chu yt is applied, 
