70 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
united tubers. The root (with its branches) resembles the 
claw of a bird. It is firm and juicy, of a deep yellow colour, 
The other sort has no tubers, is densely covered with hair. 
(radical fibres), is not juicy and is of a pale yellow colour. 
Ch, VIL, 382:—Huang lien. Only leaves and root 
figured. It seems a Ranunculacea is intended. 
TaTar., Cat., 10 :— Huang lien. Radix Leontice.— 
GauceER [9], huang lien and [10], Ch‘uan huang lien (huang 
en from Sz ch‘uan), figured and described. Jointed, yellow 
rhizomes, very bitter. 
P. Smira, 126 :—//uang lien identified with Justicia. 
According to Parker [China Review, X, 28] the huang 
lien plant is much cultivated in the mountains of Sz ch‘uan. 
It is Coptis teeta, Wall. (Order Ranunculacew). See Henry, 
Chin. pl., 137. : 
The yellow bitter root huang lien, which 1 obtained 
from a Peking apothecary’s shop, and which was examined by 
Prof. Fiickicer, seemed to belong to Coptis teeta. The 
root has sometimes the appearance of a bird’s claw. 
Dymock, in his Veget. Mat. Med. of W. India, p 12 
states that the root of Coptis teeta is much exported from 
China to India. 
Cust. Med., p. 70 (59) :—-Exported 1885 under the 
name of shui lien from Hankow to other Chinese ports 856 
piculs,—p. 58 (21) from I chang 300 piculs.—Jbid., p. 452 
(916) Places of production: Sy ch‘uan, Hu peh, Shen si, 
Yiin nan, 
So moku, X, 38 :—F ii Coptis anemonefolia, Sieb. & 
Zuce.—Ibid., 39, Te yy 8 in vi (five-leaved huang lien) = 
C. quinquefolia, Mig. Ibid., 40 :—= #: Hf HE (three-leaved 
huang lien) = C, trifolia, Salish, | 
"“T have visited a huang dion Plantation in the mountains of Hu peh, 
and the plant is undoubtly Coptis teeta, Wall.”"—A. Henry. 
