ae * 
PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 353 
This is a very common tree in Northern China. Its common 
“name at Peking is ch‘ou ch‘un. It has the same name in 
Hupei [Heyry, le, 85]. Disagreeable odour of the leaves 
and the flowers, slice the name. The leayes of the 
Ailautus (large pinnate, from one to two feet long) are 
‘very similar to those of the Chinese Cedrela, a tree like- 
Wise common in the neighbourhood of Peking. But on 
closer examination the leaves of the Ailantus are easily 
distinguished by the two little glands near the basis of each 
leaflet, to which the species name “ glandulosa” refers. 
The Ailantus © grows yery easily and rapidly, and its wood is 
used only for fuel, as it was in the classical perio. Iti is 
well known also in Europe. 
- Allanius glandulosa does not occur in Japan. Japanese 
botanists apply the Chinese name {$% to Luscaphis staphy- 
. leoides, S. & Z., Flora japon. 1, 124, tab. 67, (Sambucus 
_ MMponica, Thb: g., dlantus Japonica, Bl.), a a shrub of the order 
Staphylacec found also in China. [See Horr™. & Scuvrss, 
237, Kwa wi, 92.] Kamprer [ Aman. ewot., 895] applies oe 
the above Chinese character, evidently by a mistake, to kioh 
or * dara, which is Acanthopanax spinosum, Miq. oy 
E., 253, family #3. Figure the same as to family tt 
S., VIL, 8, the two words combined RE i, but two figures. 
Jap. 74, Ailantus glandulosa, Desf., HE. 
» 930, Euscaphis staphylevides, S. & Z., BF if 
SLY. He Kao. The Shuo wen writes HR. A tree swentond 
i in the Shi king [176, 27% 3]. 
= Rh ya [224] calls the Kao the ly i shad 0 or mani oe 
chy, ee 
Lu ki:—The mountain ch‘u does not differ come | 
Sather its leaves and use them for teu. But in anotier re 
from the ch‘y which grows in the plain, only its” leaves. oe . ag = 
narrower, _ The people of 8% Wu (northern part of Cheking) plas 
