PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 333 
bows. —K‘une An-kvo defines hun by #& [see the preceding |. 
Ts‘at understands, in general, wood fit for making bows. 
Li ki, 1, 265 [ Yéie ling] :—Last month of spring. Orders 
are given to the chiefs of works to inspect the materials 
in the five store-houses . .. . those of arrows and wood 
for bows, $f BA tsien han. Regarding the first character, 
Which properly means an arrow, but also a kind of small 
hamboo, see 564. According to Henry [1.¢., 238], tsien han 
in Hupei is a name for Arundo madagascarensis, Kth. 
Chou li, 11, 461 :—On. estime le bois dur du pays de King 
(#) #). Commentator B. (Cumye Hian):—C’est le bois 
— Hi qui est employé pour le manche ou milieu des ares, des 
- arbalétes, 
\ 
003.— ae Ky [not to be confounded with, An, corn, 
% supra, 335] is, as Leecr correctly states, a name for the 
_ Paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera, Vent. 
Shi king, 297, 301:—Yellow bird, do not settle on the 
Broussonetia. Mao explains ku by bad tree, the Shuo wen by 
| HE ch'w and writes the first name a kv. Both these names, 
fw and ch‘u, occur in the Shan hai king. Kuo P‘o explains 
that it is also called #B fou. Paper is made of its bark. 
ae Lu k1:—The people of kj JY Yu chou (Northern Chili) — 
call the hu tree g% 3 ku sang (ku mulberry) ; another name 
: for it is ch%y sang. In $i] King (Hukuang), # Yang (Anhui, 
—— Chekiang) and in 3g ff Kiao kuang (Kuangtung) it is Au, in 
i H Chung chou (Honan) ch‘u. Now in Kiangnan the 
: People make cloth and paper from its bark. The pepe ud 
Several chang long, pure white, shining, of excellent quality. 
young leaves of the tree may be eaten. ce nee 
> P.. XXXVI, 10, #§ ch‘u. This character was originally 
_ Written #F and }%. Good description given of the, trep 
- “he Yu yang tsa tsu [9th century | distinguishes two varieties, 
that with divided (lobed) leaves, called ch‘u and that with 
