380 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
describes this tree, of which he probably saw a poor specimen. 
Its pinnate leaf has from 11 to 15 leaflets. Phon 
LXXXIII, 10-13, $4, Sophors japonica. 1d 
E., 255, family #, with recognizable figure of Sephora. 
C3502, 505, -Pr.; §8, 195.-: Sumi, 201, +:S., 1K, 4 130. 
WV. supra, 356. : a 
547.—In the Mia Calendar, 43, third month, we read Rik. 
DovcLas translates:—Plucked are the Vucca pinnatijida. 
I am not aware upon what authority this identification is 
based. DouGuas refers the #§ shi of the [/ia Calendar to the 
plant #4 #& Aw che of the Pen ts‘ao kang mu, which we 
is there applied to two different plants [see P., XVI, 33, 37]: 
One of them is a Physalis. [V. the Rh ya, 144]. I should 
rather think that the sh/ of the J/ia Calendar is the et 
Kw shi, a medicinal plant noticed in the Shen nung pen tao 
and otherwise called # #8 k‘u shen. [See P., NIL, 32 
Judging by the description given there of the plan 
belongs to the leguminous order. The root is very b 
Ch. [VUL, 5] figures, under k‘u shen, a leguminous p 
Loureiro [Flora cochin., 556] gives khu sem as the Cl 
‘name for Robinia amara [unknown to botanists], the root 
which, he says, is “amarissima.” According to H 
[Le., 190] at Ichang hk‘ shen is Sophora krone’, Hance. — 
So moku, XIV, 28, BB, Sophora angustifolia, 8. &Z 
£., 161, family + BB, with two figures, copies Or, I 
C., 635, Sophora flavescens, Ait. ecg 
Su., 186, Robinia. itt eee 
£., 64, family EE, Flouttounia, Hee is one of the synonyms 
supra, 144]. 
548.—f, J, also written Hi, and sometimes read (‘0 
*Fias Calendar, 21, first month :—#¥ Ar Hi pe 5 
Doveas translates :—Plum, apricot, mountain peach” 
then blossom. The Chinese commentary explains 1 
Hi BE by I] PE (mountain peach) referring, it seems, — 
