MATERIA MEDICA OF THE ANCIENT CHINESE. 15 
Cust. Med., p. 4 (22). New chwang exported in 1885 
Liquorice to other Chinese ports 1,767 piculs,—p. 80 (100), 
Tientsin exported 4,576. piculs,—p. 46 (18), Chefoo exported 
8,690,—p. 68 (34), Hankow exported 1,148,—p. 455 (587). 
Liquorice, places of production :—Chili, Shan tung, Shen si, 
KKan su. 
In 1882 I sent some specimens of Chinese Liquorice 
root from Shan si to Prof. Dr. Friicxicer, who in the 2nd 
edition of his Pharmacognosie [p. 855] writes that he is not 
able to distinguish it from Spanish Liquorice of the first 
quality. 
The Liquorice root used in medicine in Europe is 
derived from Glycyrrhiza glabra, L., indigenous in Southern 
Kurope. The typical form of this supplies the Spanish 
Liquorice, which is considered to be the best. The variety 
glandulijera, which grows in Hungary, South Russia, yields 
the Russian Liquorice, which is likewise derived from Gi. 
echinata, Li. 
Loureiro [ Fl. cochin., 543] states that Chinese Li- 
quorice root is yielded by Gl. echinata and glabra of the 
northern provinces of China, [See my Larly Europ. Les. 
Fl. China, p. 145.] 
Bunce [Lnum. pl. Chine bor., 97] records Gl. glanduli- 
Jera from the neighbourhood of Peking and the Great Wall. 
Przevatsky (Mongolia, Tangut, etc., Engl. edition, 1, 191] 
states that the root of Gl. uralensis, Fischer, one of the 
characteristic plants of the Ordos, is dug up there by the 
Mongols, hired by the Chinese, who despatch the drug down 
the Huang ho to supply the Chinese markets. The same plant 
is recorded by Father Davip [Francuet, Plante David. 
Mongol., 93] from the Peking plain and Southern Mongolia. 
{t grows also in the Altai and Ural mountains. 
