PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 399 
566.—#E Kai. W.D. 362:—Name of a straight, 
graceful and durable tree which grows on the grave of 
Confucius. 
P. does not notice this tree, but K.K.F.P. [LXXX, 26] 
gives a short account of it. See also K.D. The 
fe BR AR BE Huai «nan ts‘ao mu pu [K.D. writes 
HE #7 F EE AX Fj, and it would therefore seem that it isa 
treatise on the plants mentioned in the Huai nan te, 2nd 
century B.C.] states that the kai tree grows on the grave of 
Kune rsz’. It is a sort of # tso (oak). Its trunk and 
branches are straight, not crooked ; it has a durable wood. 
The Shuo wen says that the kai is a tree on the grave of 
— Coxrucrus. The Yu yang tsa tsu [9th century] says In 
Shu (Sz‘ch‘uan) is a tree which resembles the tso (an oak). 
It withers when all the other trees are in blossom, and 
thrives in winter, and gives shade. The people of Shu call 
it kiai mu. In the Shantung t‘ung chi we read that the 
Kiai mu, which grows on the grave of K‘one msz‘ has a finely 
grained wood suitable for chess-boards and lances. The 
young leaves may be eaten as a vegetable, they are also 
employed like tea. An oil is expressed from the seeds and 
used for plasters. Of the excrescences of the tree drinking- 
Cups can be made. | ee 
In 1873 Dr. J. Epxrys visited the grave of CONFUCIUS 
hear the city of #h % K‘ii fou hien in the prefecture of 
Yen chou fa, Shantung. In a paper devoted to this bine 
and published in: the Journal N.C.B.R.A. Soe. (VII, 82] 
he states :—The grave of Coxrucius is about 20 feet high : 
and 100 feet in circuit. On it grow pines, sence? vst 
@ tree called, from the shining brillancy of its leaves, shu 
tsing shu (crystal tree). Dr. EDKINS transmitted ” ig 
: branch of this tree, with long, pinnate, shining leaves.” ee 
Proved to belong to Pistacia chinensis, Bge., 3 handsome sped : 
met with also in the Peking mountains. 
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