40 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
CU. A. Meyer, order Orobanchacew. It consisted of the whole 
plant, salted, the stem about three inches thick and a | 
This plant is common in §. Siberia, Dsungaria, inne : 
It has been gathered in 1874 by Dr. PIASSETSKY in ee 
(ind. Fl. sin, WU, 222]. The name ts‘ung yung in Chinat 
probably applied to several plants of the order Orobanchace 
Cust. Med., p. 70 (71) :—Ts‘ung yung exported 13 
from Hankow to other Chinese ports 78 piculs, The drug 
is referred there, it is unknown to me on what authority, to 
Ruta angustiflora [sic !], which is most probably a mistake. | 
Braun [ Hankow Med., 46] states that ts‘ung yung in Hankow 
is Eyinetia Japonica, and gives K ZF ta yin as a synony 7 
According’ to the Cust, Med., p. 26 (54) of the drug 
ta ytin, in 1885, 562 piculs were exported. Jhid., p. = 
(1859) :—Ts‘ung yung, <Eginetia, sp. Places of production: 
Chi li, Shan si, Sz ch‘uan, Hu peh, The drug ta y= 
unknown to me, 
Horrm. & Scar., 26 
Sieb. Zuce. [on the authority of SIEBoLp]. 
Plon 20, V, 21, 22:—py ae ap. The plant figured 
there under this Chinese hame is an Oroban 
Fe Ze BE Lginetia japonitl, 
thacea, 
‘The Ts‘ao ts‘ung yung noticed in the above account has 
the notice given of it in the P, [XIla, 43] undef 
the name of if 2% Lie fang, which plant is said there to be 
the same as the ts‘ao (herbaceous) ts‘ung yung. 4 
The lie tang, also called os 4 li tang is first spoken of “_ 
the K‘ai pao Pen ts‘ao [10th cent.] as a plant growing “_ 
- rocks in the province of Shan nan [S. Shen si, App. 268]. 
Its root resembles the root of Nelumbium speciosum. It _ 
used in medicine, 
Han Pao-sueng (10th cent. ]:—It grows in Yiian chou, 
Tsin chou, Wei chou, Ling ch [all in the eastern part 
