78 : BOTANICON SINICUM. 
leaves as a vegetable. They have a pleasant taste. Inthe — 
‘th month the plant opens its small white flowers. The 
inflorescence is like that of the shi lo (an umbelliferous plant). 4 
The seeds resemble those of the hu sui (Coriander) but are — 
larger. The root is large, of a dirty yellow colour, resembles 
the root of the shu kui (Althea), The best comes from 
Ts‘i chon [n. supra]. The sort called # Bh JRl shi fang feng 
grows in Ho chung fa [in 8.W. Shan si, App. 74]. 5 
Li Sut-curn :—The drug which is produced in Kiang 
and in Huai [Kiang su and An hui, App. 124, 89] is the 
shi (stone) Jang feng. It grows on rocks, whence the name. 
In the second month the people there gather the young 
leaves for food. They are pungent, sweet and fragrant. 
It is called Ff $f AE shan hu ts‘ai (coral vegetable). bi 
root looks coarse and deformed. The plant can be raised 
_ from seed. me 
Ch., VII, 23 :—ang feng. Rude drawing. Umbel- 
liferous plant. ; 
Lour., Fi. cochin., 622 :—Coreopsis leucorhiza, sinice 
fam fum (fang Jeng). Tbid., 452 :—Origanum Dictamnus, 
sinice: Quam tum (Canton) fam Jum. Notandum i 
provineiis borealibus Sinarum nasci aliam plantam eodem 
nomine fam fum vocatam, radice carnosa alba, subfuseform, 
magni usus in medicina, sed prorsus alienam ab Origano. 
D’Incarvinie, in his list of Peking plants, calls the 
Jang feng Persil des montagnes, 
Tavar., Cat., 23 ‘—Fang feng. Rad. Libanotidis ?— 
Gavcer [17] describes and figures the same drug, the root 
of an umbelliferous plant.—P. Smrrg, 133, 
® At Peking the name Jang feng is applied to two 
umbelliferous plants, viz, Stenocelium divaricatum, Turez. (Siler 
. 
divaricatum, Benth. & Hook.) and Peucedanum rigidum, Bge- 
es, féng in mountains of Hu peh is the name given to Peucedanum 
terebinthaccums F.—A. Hema, - 
