4 BOTANICON SINICUM, 
in the first part of the Botanicon sinicum, 1 shall therefore 
confine myself here to an enumeration of such books and 
authors’ names as appear more frequently in the following 
pages. 
There are first two ancient treatises on Materia Medica 
1, (2)’ the 98 #8 $e Tsai yao lu and 2. (3) the 4? A 
44 BP Lei kung Yao tui, the compilation of which tradition 
refers to the time of the legendary Emperor Huang 11 
[B.C. 27th cent.]. The Ts‘ai yao lu, or directions for 
gathering drugs, is ascribed to fj # Tune Kiix, one of the 
ministers of Huana tr, the other, the Materia Medica of 
Let Kuna, to one of the sages who assisted the emperor in his 
investigations into the Art of Healing. 
The next in order are two works on the same subject :— 
8. (4) the 2s FE 4 GE Li shi Yao lu, by 38 m2 a 
TANG-CHI, and 4, (5) the FRE AR EE Wu shi Pen ts‘uo, 
by 5& #§ Wo Pv, both written in the first half of the third 
century. 
5. (6).—The Hd $2 2% Psao chi lun 
the medical virtues of 
thé 5th century, by 7 
Thao. 
6. (9).—The FE BIS Tsien bin shi chi, by F& Fa ag 
Sun Sz-mo [beginning of 7th cent. |, 
7. (10).—The 6 VE AR ES Vo sing pen ts‘ao and the 
2 PE BR Yao sing lun, two wor ‘3, both by i HE Cuen 
Kuay [6th and 7th cent. |. 
8. (11).—The 
Kune [7th cent. | 
» & work explaining 
drugs, written about the middle of 
% Unt Kune or properly By Ler 
BS AK Be Tang Fen ts‘ao, by #E FE Su 
9. (12).—The BRAKE Shi Liao pen ts‘ao, by & 
Menc Suen [second half of 7th ecent.], 
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The figures in parentheses refer to Botanicon siniewm, I, p. 40-54, 
