: Tat 
332 BOTANICON SINICUM, 
After this P. notices the 4% #f vu che, a tree which 
said by an author of the 8th century to resemble the che, but 
to have axillar thorns. Its leaves do not fall off in winter. 
It grows in the wild mountainous country of Kiangnan 
(present Kiangsi), Li Sui-cnen says, this tree resembles 
the che, but is provided with thorns, and smaller, — Its leaves 
which resemble those of the Ff tso (an oak, v. infra, a 
but are smaller, are used for feeding silk-worms. 
See in Ch, XXXV, 46 and 27, figures representing tse 
two trees ; also Aju huang, LVI, 5: rude drawing. : 
The che tree of the Chinese is now well-known to our 
botanists. It is the Cudrania triloba of the order Artocarper, 
to which belongs also the mulberry tree, It was first 
described by Dr. Hance in 1868. [See Hooker, Icon. plant. 
VIII, 1887, tab. 1792.] It has been gathered in various 
parts of China by Deseavx, Fornes, Davin, Huvry. F.B. 
Forses writes [in the Journ. Bot., 1883, 145] that the tree 
varies much in habit, being found often with thorns and as 
often without them. The typical form of the leaves 
distinetly 3-lobed. [See also’ Henry, l.c., 19.] 
I cannot say what the drawing in the Phon zo [LXXXVI 
1] under MY fF is intended for. Franonget & SAVATIER {l 
I, 434) mention the Cudrania javanensis, Trée., in Japan. 
It is represented in the Phon zo [/.c., 5] but under nae same 
Chinese name as the Broussonetia [v. infra, } 503]. 
£., 248, Peg Hi, with recognizable figure of Cudrania. 
Kan [502] is a synonym. : 
Fap., 715, Cudrania triloba, Hee., AL Ki. 
902.—#® Kan, also written #. See W.D., 374, the ' i 
ofa tree. But in the Classics this character sometimes § 
to designate a distinct tree. . 
In the Shu king [112. Tribute of Yay the kan is. 
tioned together with other trees as produced in the pr 
of # Pp King chou (Hukuang). Lace translates, W 
