72 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
the name #% 2 huang kin. The fresh root is also called 4 
(& | tao kin. The drug produced in the north is of a 4 
deep yellow colour. 4 
Ch., VIL, 36 :—Huang kin. The figure seems to intend 3 
a Scutellaria, i 
Tarar., Cat. 10 :—Huany kin, Radix Scutellaria | 
viscidule, Bee. (which has yellow flowers). But in his 
drawings of Peking plants, Tarartrov applies the es 
huang kin to 8. macrantha, Fischer, with blue flowers. This 4 
latter is a Siberian plant, common also in North China. — 
It is the Cassida montana in AMMAN’s Stirp. rar, ruth, (1739), 
p. 42, tab. 6. Radix carnosa extus et intus flava saporis 2 
subamari, ete. 
P. Smira, 194 :— Se. viscidula. 
The drug huang kin obtained from an apothecary’s shop 
at Peking were thin transversally cut slices of a yellow, 
bitter root. i 
Hewry, Chin. pl., 141 Huang kin. In Hu pera | 
name for Berberis nepalensis, Spr.2 a 
Cust. Med., p- 24 (26) :—Huang kin exported 1889 
from Tien tsin 5,580 pieuls,—p. 44 (16), from Che foo, 517 
piculs,—p. 68 (27), from Han kow 162 piculs. : 
So moku, XI, 48 Bi Scutellaria macruntha.—See 
uso Kwa wi, 14, 
28.—3 FE Ts‘in kiao. Py ae, 16, 7 5 CAXXIX. 
Pen king:—Ts‘in kiao, The root is officinal. Taste 
bitter. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. 
Pie lu:—The ts‘in kiao grows in Fei wu fin Sz ch‘uap, 
App. 37], in mountain valleys. The root is dug up in the — 
2nd and 8th months and dried in the sun. 
" “This name I have since found to be erroneous,’ —A, HENRY. 
