88 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Interesting notices regarding the pei mu, cultivated 
near Ning po, are found in the Reports on Trade [Chin. 
M. Customs] for 1869, p. 61, and for 1880, p. 142. It is 
there stated that these bulbs are much larger than the 
pee mu produced in Sz ch‘uan, but do not possess medicinal 
properties to the same extent as the Sz ch‘uan drug.—See 
also the same Reports for 1879, p. 32, Han kow, regarding 
the Ji] A BE or pei mu from Sz ch‘uan, where it is much 
cultivated and is in great repute for the treatment of several 
diseases. 
Father Davin states [Journ, NV. Ch. Br. As. Soe. 
VII, 212] that the pei mu which grows in the high 
mountains of Mu pin [Tibet, on the border of Sz ch‘uan]} and 
the corms of which are much used in medicine, is a Fritillaria 
with yellow flowers. This is, according to FraNcHEt 
[Plante David., 11, 180], Fritillaria Roylii, Wook.— 
Fortune [Res. am. the Chinese, 261] speaks of a Fritillaria 
with grayish white flowers, cultivated near N. ing po for its 
bulbs, used in medicine. This is, it seems, the pet mu men- 
tioned in the Reports on Trade.—Henry, Chin. pl., 366:—- 
The name pei mu in Hu pei is applied to a Plecone (Orchid), 
but this is not the Sz ch‘uan drug of the same name. 
Cust. Med., p. 76 (185) :—Jj] EL BE pet mu from 
Sz ch‘uan exported 1885 from Han kow 356 piculs,—p- 62 
(51), from I chang 281 piculs.—Jbid., 190 (104), —& 
native pei mu exported from Ning po 2,474 piculs. 
So moku, V, 81:—H ff Fritillaria Thunbergii, Miq. 
(Ucularia cirrhosa, Thbg.). Yellow flowers.—See also Awa 
wi, 10. . 
37.— Ey $F pai mao. P., mau, 45, 7. CII, 
Comp. for other ancient names Bot. sin., U1, 183, 459. 
Pen king :—Pai mao (white grass). The root is called 4 
BR BE ju ken, Hk mao ken, Mj Ba lan ken. The root ® 
