PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 371 
lt is a tree of middle size, common in the mountains. Its 
leaves strongly resemble those of the chestnut. The eupule is 
covered outside with long, lanceolate, reflexed scales. The 
Chinese call this cupule #{ fii Ff stang wan tsz* (wan acup) 
_ and use it extensively for dyeing black. i 
The drawing of the siang in Ch. [XXXIL, 41] is very 
rude, but it seems Quercus Bungeana is intended. : 
Cu. Apex [see his Journey in the Interior of China, 1816, 
1817, p. 165] gathered near the Poyang lake in Kiangsi two 
_ oaks which R. Brown named Q. chinensis and Q. densifolia. 
They were used by the natives as pollards, considerable quan- 
tities of the branches being accumulated for fire-wood or for 
charring. These may have been among the oaks referred to in — 
the Pincsics, Henry [l.c., 238, 234, 235] mentions several 
: oaks to which in Hupei the names // and seang are applied. 
The Q. Bungeana is not found in Japan, The Japanese 
botanists have applied the Chinese names siang and Ui to an 
allied small-leaved species, the Q. serrata, Thbg. Amen. €itotey 
816: :— HE reki, vulgo kunugi, ete. Ilex rubra, ligno 3 in 
tufum languente, durissimo. SrepoLo [Syz. plant. wcon. 
Jap., 153] Q. serrata, kusugi, #. Cortex adhibetur ad nigra 
tingendum, Phon zo, LXVI, 18: & @ serrata. ay se 
a £., 236. V. supra, 239. eo 
os) —4 Bk Po su. Lace calls it the ati pi 
Shi king, 34:—In the forest there are the o serubhy oaks, fe 
0 says the p‘o su is a small tree. 4 ee 
Rh ya, 300 : :—We read there su p‘o ase. of oe cn alee 
prong to Kuo P*‘o, an oak. ee 
#, XXX, 55, Hi PE hu shi (fruit) or re Ia au ot 
“a pro su, also K HE He ta ye hi oer 
es ha F Ui kiang tsz‘ * 
Su Sune [11th century] :—The hu is a common t , ree in 
the: Mountains. It is akin to the (i.e it is likewise an 
oak). The acorns are smaller and are not ger as gi 
a1) and it 
