6 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
23. (30).—The 33 We AC BL Tang i pen ts‘ao, by FE RF ht 
Wane Hao-xu, called also $i yg Har Ts‘ana and #6 Z% 
Tsin cat [first half of 13th cent. ]. 
24. (31).—The 9 FA ARE Ji yung pen ts‘ao, by Fe Fi 
We Savt. [Mongol period, 13th and 14th cent. |. 
25, (33).—The 7X HE fit 3 RUB Pen ts‘ao yen i pu i, 
by Ae BB F Cav Cuey-nene [second half of 14th cent. |. 
26. (40).—The AX BS & HB Pen tstao hui pien, by FE RR 
Wane Ki [16th cent.). 
In the subsequent account of the vegetable drugs men- 
tioned in the Shen nung Pen ts‘ao and the Pie In the reader 
will find them treated of in the same order as in the text of 
the Pen ts‘ao kang mu, where the names of drugs first 
given in the Shen nung Pen ts‘ao are always placed at the 
head of the respective articles, The principal object kept in 
view by the author in extracting the following notes from 
Li Sat-cuen’s work, is the botanical identification of the 
drugs of vegetable origin mentioned in the 
ancient Chinese 
works 
on Materia Medica, Notice is therefore taken only of 
such details in the ancient descriptions of drugs and plants 
as may be serviceable to this end. Statements of no interest 
for European readers have generally been omitted, 
The style used by 
plants is generally 
of the expressions 
great difficulty, 
described be un 
Which means “ 
the ancient Chinese authors in describing 
very simple, but owing to the vagueness 
and terms, the translator often meets with 
and is constrained to guess should the plant 
known to him. Thus the character Ff tsz‘, 
seed,” is frequently used in ancient books 
for $€ shi, fruit, and the latter character again often occurs 
there with the meaning “ solid,” opposed to hollow. # heng 
is the stem of herbaceous plants, .but it is also used for 
petiole and for ®& kan, the trunk of a tree, BH nZa0, which 
