PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 383 
DLR WG Mu lan. A tree mentioned in the Li suo [5]:— 
Te mou lan de la montagne Pi. Jbidem, 12:—lLa rosée 
suspendue aux feuilles de arbre lan. 
P, XXXIV, 23:—Mu lun. Ch. [XXXIII, 14] figures, 
— under mu lan, a Magnolia. 
Amen, ewot., 845 :—JR BR Mokkieuren. Fratex  tulipifer 
++ flore Lilio-narcissi rubente. This is figured in 
J. Banks’ cones Kempjeri [5 el., tab. 43), and is, according 
to Maximowicez, Magnolia obovata, Thbg. Not indigenous 
to Japan. The tree has been introduced from China. 
£., 293, family AX BB, with good figure of a Magnolia tree. 
A, [XV, 35] mentions also the name 7 #, which is a synonym 
in Z., but is commonly applied to Ficus pumila, BI. P, XVIII, 40. 
Other Magnoliacee are mentioned :— 
Jap., 1209, Kadsura japonica, L., Ye Ft a a 
» 1379, Magnolia compressa, Max., 4 I) fit. 
» 1380, = conspicua, Salisb., re: B- 
» 1383, = hypoleuca, S. & Z., #F: tel 2 Hh. 
» 1384, p °: Rokes; DC, F a. 
» 1385, »  ebovata, Thhg., AR ia- - 
» 1386, » parviflora, $. & Z., KF XK t- 
» 2011, Schizandra chinensis, Baill., tt cf OR a 
» 2012, rs nigra, Max., WA a iff- 
da2 RE Kui is the name for shi! Chinese Cassia bark ae 
the tree from which this bark is obtained, the apeeauidetiais 
Cassia, Bl., a native of Southern China. 
: Li ki, , 135. :—Cinnamon (ku/) mentioned as a strengthen- 
NZ spice. [ See the quotation in 381. is [hidem (I, — 
Cinnamon together with Ginger. 
The kui is mentioned in the Shan hat hing, in the Shen : 
"9 pen tsao and in the Rh ya [247]- _ 
— The Shuo wen says the ku? is a tree of es it yi jes 
the best of all medicines, 
