$4 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Pie lu:—Other names : He Pk t¢ Awaz (ground Sophora), 
Re BE tu huat, FR | hiao hua, Ey pat heng (white 
stem), 2E ¥ kin heng, # Fy li pat (green and white), 
BE BS ling lang, Fe Wa he ma (tiger’s hemp). The k‘w shen 
grows in Ju nan {in Ho nan, App. 110] in the mountains 
and in fields. The root is dug up in the 8rd, 8th and 10th 
months and dried in the sun. 
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T‘ao Hune-xine :—It is a common plant in Mid China. 
The leaves have a strong resemblance to those of the hua 
(Sophora japonica). Yellow flowers. The fruit is a pod. 
The root is very bitter. 
Su Sune [11th cent.]:--The root is of a yellow colour, 
from five to seven inches and more long. From three to five 
stems issue from it, three to four feet high. The leaves are 
very like those of the huai and deciduous. Flowers yellowish 
white. Fruit (or seeds) small beans. 
Ii Sur-cuen likens the pods of the plant to the siliqua 
of the radish. Other names BF PE ye (wild) hua, 3% 8 
ku ku (bitter bone). 
. Cy VILL. BK phon. 
Rude drawing. Leguminous 
plant. 
Lovr., Fl, cochin., 556 :—Robinia amara, Cochinchina, 
China, sinice khu sem. Radix subearnosa, multiplex luteo- 
fusca, amarissima, Ibid., 555:—R. mitis. Same Chinese 
name. Both these species are known only from LouREIRO§ 
description, 
Tarar., Cat., 83 :-—_K%, shen. Radix Robinie amare 
[Tatartwoy evidently relies upon Louretro’s identification]: 
—P. Smira, 186. 
I have seen the drug ku shen, obtained from Wen chow 
fu, transversally cut slices of an exceedingly bitter root, 
one inch in diameter, ~ 
