44 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
bce ' Weenie. 
at the top and resembles the fruit of the su sui 182. | 
becomes yellow and ripe at the time of the withering of 
leaves. The principal root is connected with 12 secon y 
tubers of various sizes like the tien men tung { Asparagus 
lucidus. See 176]. Some of them are in shape like cuca 
bers, others like radishes, They are much used for food, 
both raw and steamed. The best sort is produced in Y 
chou [v. supra]. 
I omit the details given regarding this plant by other 
authors quoted in the P., for these accounts are confused 
and contradictory. Su Sune [11th cent.] seems to a | 
the ch‘i tsien and the ten ma to be distinct plants, bo 
common in Middle China 
The figure of the ch tsien or ten ma in the Ch. [VIU, 8] 
is a faney drawing. | 
jane Cat. 56: T*ien ma, Radix Urticw tuberose a 
Gavcer [52] describes and figures the drug, a fleshy root, 
egg-shaped, three inches long. 
Heyry, Chin. plants, 464: 
Gastrodia, order Orchidew, 
—Tien ma or chi tsien, | 
Phon zo, V, 23, 24 ad 
with a large root. It has the a 
- I may observe 
Australia has a root 
much eaten by the 
that G, sesamoides, R. Br., i 
Which is full of starch and which is 
natives, : 
BE Euphorbia Lathyris in Japan, So moku [1X, 23]. 
