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BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Hu pei, App. 189] and I tu [in Hu pei, App. 104]. The ro 
resembles that of the Pwonia moutan, 
red colour outside, black within. 
the heart is taken out. 
but is smaller, of 
When prepared for 
Su Kone [7th cent.]:—A popular name for this plan 
Is = Ss A san man ts‘ao. The leaves resemble tea-leaves 
they do not fall off in winter. The root consists of flesh 
tubers. 
Su Sune [11th cent.]:—The plant grows in Kian 
Huai [An hui, Kiang su, App. 124, 89], in Ho tung [Shan s 
App. 80], but the best kind comes 
Sz ch‘uan, App. 292]. 
clear. 
from Shu chou [part of 
Description of the plant not quite — 
‘ 
[10th cent.] calls it A i 
es not fade).—The plant pa ki 
been unknown to [1 SaI-CcHEN, 
The Ji hua Pen ts‘ao 
pu tao ts‘ao (plant which do 
tien seems to have 
The Ch. [ VII, 16] gives under the name of pa ki 
two rude drawings representing two different plants, 0 
from Chu chou [in An hui, App. 25], the other from K 
chou [in Hu pei, App. 169]. 
Tatar., Cat., 1 -—Pa ki tien. Not identified. —GavGek 
[3] describes and figures the 
root. 
This is perhaps the pea tsi hien in Lounr., Fl. cochin., 471, 
the Chinese name for Septas repens, now called Herpestis : 
Monnieria, Benth. Order Scrophularinee. 
Cust. Med., p. 846 (103):—Pa ki t%iey exported 188) 
Canton to other Chinese ports ¢. 600 piculs,—p. 318 : 
(52), from Swatow 38 Piculs,—p, 280 (84), from Amoy 
2 piculs.—J2/d., P- 467 (926) Places of production: Kuang — 
tung, Kuang si, Che kiang. } 
ae drawing sub BRK 
Seems to represent a. Polygala, 
from 
in Siep., Jeon. ined. [11] ’ 
The plant described and ; 
