14 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
barbarian tribes who dwelt in or about the district of Wen 
shan [in N, Sz‘ ch‘uan, v. App. 388]. The root has a red 
rind, is of a hard solid structure. The best sort is called 
tid 32 HE Pao han ts‘ao, from a place in the country of the 
Si K‘iang barbarians [Kukonor, N.E. Tibet, App. 800— 
Ancient Pao han is now Ho chou in Kan su, v. App. 242]. 
It is not advisable to dry the root by means of artificial 
heat, for it then becomes fissured. Another kind of kan ts‘ao 4 
resembles fish-bowels. It js not advisable to eut it with 
a knife. A drug of an inferior quality is produced in 
Tsing chou [East Shan tung, ». App. 363}. There is also the 
tse‘ (purplish or violet) kan ts‘ao. Tt is slender, but for fault 
ofa better drug it may also he used, 
Su Sune [11th century }:—The kan ts‘ 
prefectures of Shen si [modern Shensi and E. Kansu, *. 
App. 284] and Ho tung [present Shan si, «, App. 80]. It is 
a plant from one to two feet high. 
those of the Ana’ (Sophora). In the 
violet flowers, resembling those of the nai tung [unknown to 
me] which are followed by pods like pea-pods. The root 
- has a red rind, is from 38 to 4 f 
eet long, coarse or slender. 
Tn its upper part the principal root 
emits horizontal branches 
(runners) which are beset with rootlets, After the crown 
and the red rind ha 
i ye been removed, the root is dried in the 
shade. 
ao grows in all the 
The leaves resemble 
7th month it produces 
Kan ts‘ao is stil] the common Chinese n 
Y : EG . 
or Glycyrrhiza, A good drawing of a G 
ts‘ao, roots, flowers 
Ch. [VIL 6}. 
Comp. Phon zo, ‘, 
ame for Liquorice 
lycyrrhiza sub kan 
and echinate legumes, is found in the 
1, ff ee Glycyrrhiza, 
SIEB, @con., 305, Glycyrrhiza, 
introducta, rarius et quidem in provinei 
Tarar. Cat, 25.—P, Surry, 136, 
kan soo, BK. China 
is insulee Sikok culta. 
Liquorice root, 
