42 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
| This is probably the plant so yen mentioned by # | 
Chinese medizeyal traveller Chang chun [A.D, 1221] in 
North Mongolia. [See my book Chin. Mediwv. Travellers, 
p. 52.] 
Ch., VIII, 63:—So yang. Rude drawing representing ‘ 
cylindrical stem covered with scales, 
The drag so yang which I procured in an apothecary 
shop at Peking, and which has been examined by Professo 
Fiickicer, seemed to be Cynomorium coceineum, ., order 
Balanophoree. This is a singular, fleshy, red, herbaceous 
plant, which, as the senus name indicates, resembles a canine 
penis. According to Porayqy 
and PRZEWALSKI, it is a 
common plant 
in the Mongolian desert, 
Braun, Hankow Med., p. 40 :—So yang, reddish brown 
roots with wrinkled surface, Sz ch‘uan, Shan si, Ho nan. 
Cust. Med., p. 70 (60) :—So yang exported 1885 from 
Hankow to other Chinese ports 24 piculs.— /bid., 478 
(1189): so yang, Balanophora, Places of. production ; Sa _ 
ch‘uan, Hu peh 
11 — Fe chs tsien—P., XTIb, 1,— T., CLVI. 
Pen king :—Ch tsten (red arrow), also BE FE mu, 3 
58 BS BW hui ty yu. Root officinal. Taste pungent. Nature — 
warm. N ON-poisonous, 
Pie lu:—The chs 
Ut tsien grows in the river valleys (plains) 
of Ch‘en tsé 
Shen si, App 
Pao Pronsz [4th cent.] calls this plant 2 gg # 
ho li ts‘ao and HE ES ty, yao chi, ov self-moying chi, for it 
18 said to move even when the air is still, 
It grows in the : 
