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22.—=E FR wang sun. P., XILb, 35. T., CXXVI. 
Pen king:—Wang sun. The root is officinal. Taste 
bitter. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. 
Pie lu:—The wang sun, otherwise called $f $% huang 
(yellow) sun, #¥ $$ huang hun, grows in Hai si [in Kiang su, 
App- 50] in river valleys, also near the wall of the city of 
Ju nan [in Ho nan, App. 110]. 
Wu Pu [8rd cent.] says, in Ch‘u [Hu kuang, App. 24] 
it is called wang sun, in Ts‘i [N.E. Shan tung, App. 348] 
it is $2 $R ch‘ang sun or Ye FF hai sun, in Wu [Kiang su, 
An hui, App. 389] it is Fy Sy HX pai kung ts‘ao or BPE 
man yen, 
T‘ao Hune-Kine says that in prescriptions the wang sun 
is also termed 3 FHP huang hun and HE SF mou meng. But 
later authors prove that this is a mistake, for huang hun is 
the same as the ho huan [ Acacia. See 324] and mou meng 
is the tsz‘ shen [v. 21]. 
Cu‘ex Ts‘ane-K‘It [8th cent.] calls it # #R han ou 
(Nelumbium root in a dry soil), The root resembles that of 
Nelumbium speciosum. It grows in the T‘ai Hang mountain 
range [in N. China, App. 323]. 
Li Sui-cuen :—The leaves of the wang sun are crowded 
towards the top of the stem as in the ts: ho ch‘e [ Paris. 
See 151]. These leaves resemble the leaves of the dé ki 
[Chloranthus. See 42]. The drawing of the wang sun in 
the Pen ts‘ao kang mu seems to be intended for a Paris, the 
leaves of this genus, as is known, being whorled at the apex 
of the stem. 
Ch., VIII, 3:— Wang sun. Drawing indistinct. 
Comp. also Henry, Chin. pl., 320. 
So moku, VIL, 81, 82:— JE #R Paris quadrifolia, L., 
and P, tetraphylla, A. Gray. 
