346 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
bling the J" # ting hiang (clove). This interesting tree has _ 
been determined by Prof. Oxttver of Kew, from specimens 
received from Sz‘ch‘uan. It is the Persea nanmu of the 
Laurel order. [See Hooker, Icon. plant., 1V, 1880, p. 10, 
tab, 1816. Henry, /.c., 303.) In Japan, where the Chinese 
nan mu is not found, the name jf AX is applied to another 
Lauracea, the Machilus Thunbergii, 8. & Z. (Laurus indica, 
Thbg.). [See the Phon zo, LXXXI, 7, 8]. ; 
According to Zndea £1. Sin., Vol. 11, p. 876, it is Machilus Nanmu, Hemsl. 
V. supra, 227. Of Laurinew are mentioned :— at 
Jap. 33, Actinodaphne lancifolia, Meisn., po BS. 
» 599, Cinnainomum Camphora, Nees, fa. 
», 600, » |, , Loureirii, Nees, Ke. oe 
» 758, Daphnidium strychnifolium, 8. & Z., KR@ & a 
» 1286, Lindera glauca, Bi., Wy A HR. | 
» 1289, ,, sericea, Bl, $Y FR. ie 
13.—fR BH Vai chang, name of a tree, or more probably 
of two trees [sce further on| which are repeatedly mentioned | 
in the Shan hai king. The second character is there some- 
times written # chany, which now is the common name for 
the camphor tree, Laurus Camphora, L. Kuo P‘o explains 
ya chang by a great tree resembling the ts‘cu (Catalpa) and 
having evergreen leaves; can only be distinguished alter 
seven years [see further on the meaning of this statement]. 
W.D. [23] says that Yii chang is the ancient classie name 
for the Province of Kiangsi, and that the present name for 
the camphor tree is derived from it. I may observe that 
the name Yi chang in this sense is not met with in the ! 
Classics, so far as I know. It appears first in the History” 
of the Harlier Han, in the 2nd century B.U., as the name 
of a department comprising a great part of present Kiangst. | 
But yi chang for camphor-tree occurs in the 7'so chud 
[847], referring to the year B.C, 477 :—He tore up a large 
log of a cumphor-wood tree, killed a man, and cid. 
