368 - - BOTANICON SINICUM. 
like a horse with strong teeth, which eats tigers and le 
According to the Shan hai king, it is a white beast 
black tail. Mao takes the po of the Shi to be an 
But Lu xt makes it to be a kind of elm called PE FR ts 
the rind of which is white and green like a — 
whence the name. : 
Hore. & Scuuures, 198 :—7 1% Daphnidium Laviifoll 
S, & Z. of the order Laurinew. 
 £., 269, family Hf, Ulnus, B% is one of the nine synonyn 
E., 220, family co Prunus, it is also a synonym. 
Laurinee [v. supra, 512). 
533,—Another obscure tree, said to be an sha | is mentiol 
in the Chou li [IL, 391] :—Le frappeur du tambour en te 
euite, chargé de tuer les mauvais esprits de l'eau, prend 
branche d’orme mile ; il la perce en travers avec une | 
‘déléphant et la plonge dans l'eau. Alors les esprits meurent 
The male elm in the Chinese text is fk fg mow ku. — 
_ Hoan explains it ~ HK tit ku yi. 
534. — Nive or six names of trees mentioned i in the Ch ss | 
refer to Oaks. Some of these names are still in use, DI 
seems that the same appellations are applied to d 
species in different parts of China. China seems to be 
‘In oaks. F. BL Forses fin the Journal Bot., 1884, p» 
enumerates 28 species of Quercus hitherto observed 
European botanists in China. 
Father CiBor [in the Mémoires cone. les Chinot 3, : 
states, in an article on Chinese oaks, that the ancient C 
called the oak “Tarbre de Vhéritage.” I have not 
_ to make out to what passage of the Classics. ¢ or othe an 
writings he refers, ms 
Shi king, 201: :—Bushy oaks (## 7) on te mou! 
_ 183:—The wild geese settle on the bushy | 
248 : :—Doves on the bushy oaks (Ad). 301 Yel 
do not settle on the oaks (hii). 
Lee 
