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(Jlex) ; it contains small seeds. When the plant grows in a 
sandy soil its root is large and becomes more than a foot 
long, but when produced in a loamy soil it has a small short 
root. The root as well as the stem contain a white juice. 
The root is more juicy when dug up in autumn. 
The sha jen plant with root, leaves and flowers is figured 
in the Kin huang [Ul, i] and Ch. [VIL, ii]. The drawings 
represent a Campanulacea, probably an Adenophora. 
GaveER, 31:—Description of the sha shen root.-— 
TaTar., Cat., 50: sha shen, Radix Adenophore seu Cam- 
pande.—P. Suira, 4. 
Cust. Med., p. 46 (25) :—Sha shen exported in 1885 
from Chefoo to other Chinese ports, 2,894 piculs.—P, 474 
(1078). Place of production Shan tung, An hui. 
Henry, Chin. pl., 405 :—Sha shen in Hu pei is Adeno- 
phora polymorpha, Ledeb., and other species. 
Kiu huang, LI, 17, and Ch., VIII, 68 :-— yy # | l 
st ye sha shen (sha shen with small leaves), bad drawings, 
roots and leaves. 
Amen. exot., 822 :—yy BB sadsin. Lychnis sylvestris, 
foliis Leucoji lanuginosis, flosculis albis pentapetalis .... 
radice Pastinace, ab impostoribus pro radice ninsin (Ginseng) 
supponi solita.—KaMPreR seems to be mistaken. The 
description of the flowers does not agree with a Campanu- 
lacea. In the So moku [III, 6, 7] 7B is Adenophora 
verticillata, Fischer. Ibid., 5 :—$iy 8 | | Wahlenbergia 
marginata, A. DC. (Campanulacea). Both these species are 
known also from China. 
There is a plant Bf 3B Tang shen figured and described 
in the Ch, [VII, 49]. Large root, bluish white bell-shaped 
flowers, Creeping plant, frequent in Shan si, It is said 
