372 : BOTANICON SINICUM. 
are of no use. But the bark and leaves are employed in 
medicine. a 
K‘ou Tsune-sat [beginning of the 12th century] states :— | 
The wood of the tree is hard, but not much valued as timber ; : 
it is more generally employed for fuel and for charring; 5 
but this charcoal is inferior to that obtained from the li wood, 2 
Lit Sat-cuen :—There are two kinds of hu. One is small, . 
grows in a bushy manner; the Rh ya calls it #@ pao — 
[v. supra, 284, probably Celtis]. The other, called ta ye li, : 
is a tall tree with large, thick, coarse leaves which fall off 
in winter. Flowers like those of the chestnut. The frais: 
resemble those of the siang [see the preceding], but are — 
smaller ; they have a cupule. Although the acorns haye an - 
unpleasant taste, they are eaten by the people in time of S 
searcity. The wood is coarsly veined, and less valued than . 
that of the siang. pe 
At Peking the name hu is applied to Quercus dentata, 
Thbg. (same as Q. oborata, Bge.), but the tree is more 
commonly known under the name of po lo shu. The see 
of this oak are sessile, obovate, sinuate, of enormous size On 
young specimens, sometimes nearly two feet long. = 
cupule outside is scaly, like that of Q. Bungeana, but ~ 
scales consist of thin filaments. This species, and probably 
some other broad-leaved oaks, may have been the p‘o s¥ * 
the Shi, used for fuel. per 
Ch. [XXXII, 40] figures under hu shi an oak with neon 
probably Q. dentata, Hunny [lc 125], hu Ui, Quercus 
aliena, Bl. : a 
Amen, ewot., 816 :—fftt koku, vulgo kasjuwa. Ilex alba 
ligno candido. Sresonp [Syn. plant. econ. jap 155] *- 
Quercus dentata, kasiwa. Same Chinese name as above. 
Phon zo, LXVI, 20, Hit, Q. variabdilis, BI., and 24, KEE 
Q. aliena, Bl. re 
V. supra, 308, 
