34 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
At Peking the name huang tsing is applied to Poly-— 
gonatum macropodum, Turez., and P. chinense, Kth., both 
wild and cultivated. The roots are eaten. In the Peking — 
mountains these plants are more generally known by the 
“name BH HE RE tien ts‘ao ken (sweet root) and distinguished — 
as large-leaved and small-leaved. 
Loureiro [F. cochin., 99] applies the Chinese name — 
hoam cim (huang tsing) to Galium tuberosum (a dubious — 
plant) and states that the root of this plant is eaten boiled. 
Tarar. [ Cat., 10] identifies erroneously the drug huang 
tsing with Radix Caragane Jlave. He refers it evidently to 
Louruiro’s Robinia flava, sinice hoam khin [ FI. cochin., 556). 
P. Smiru, 51, has the same erroneous identification, but the — 
sweet mucilaginous drug huang tstng which he describes is 
Polygonatum. 
The drug huang tsing I obtained from a Peking — 
apothecary shop, was the root of a Polygonatum. 
Cust. Med., p, 342 (52) :—HHuang tsing exported 1885 — 
from Canton to other ports of China 64 piculs,—p, 210 (22) — 
from Wen chou 64,—p. 186 (39) from Ningpo 12.—Small _ 
quantities also exported from Amoy and Swatow. 
SIEB., CEcon., 76 :— Convallaria multiflora, var. odora 
(Polygonatum), Japonice narukojuri ; sinice Hf PR Radices 
rarius eduntur. 
So moku, V1, 6 —e 
Ibid., VI, 7, Fe 
liculatum, Pursh 
Hi Polygonatum multijlorum, All.— 
Bt Hi (large-leaved huang tsing) P. cana- 
. 
racter means pendent — 
[comp. R/ ya, 52]. The root 
1s officinal. Taste sweet, Nature uniform, Non-poisonous. 
