98 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
other resembles the small-leaved kung kung. It is called 
2 | ol ts‘an tou (silk-worm’s-head) tang kuc. This is — 
the drug from Li yang spoken of by T‘ao Hune-xine. It is | 
not much used. 
Su Suye [11th cent.]:—-The tang kut grows in Ch‘uan i 
Shu [Sz ch‘uan, App. 26], Shen si [App. 284], also it 
Kiang ning fu [Nan king, App. 129], Ch‘u chou [in An hui, — 
App. 284]. The best drug comes from Shu (Sz ch‘uan). 
The leaf is divided into three segments. It flowers in the 
7th or 8th months. The flowers resemble those of the shi lo 
(Anethum ?), and are of a pale purple colour. The drug — 
which is thick and fleshy, of a dark yellow colour and not 
rotten, is the best. 
Li Sai-cuey :—The drug is now much cultivated is 
sale by the people of Sz ch‘uan, Shen si, Ts‘in chou [in 
Kan su, App. 358] and Wen chou [in Sz ch‘uan, App. 387]: 
The ma wet tang kui from Ts‘in chou is the best. 
Ch. XXV, 14:—Tang kui. Rude drawing representing, 
it seems, an umbelliferous plant. 
The aromatic root tang kui brought from Sz ch‘uan, and 
much valued by the Chinese, was sent to Paris, in 1723 
by the Jesuit Father Parennin, [See my Kurl. Eur. Res — 
Fl. Ch., p. 31]. D’Ixcarvinir [Peking Plants] says it is 
kind of “ Ache” (Celery), 
Tatar., Cat., 19 :—T7 ang kui. Rad. Levistici chinensis ? 
—Gaucer [13] describes and figures the root. He thinks 
that it belongs to an umbelliferous plant,—Hans., Se. pap» 
260:—Tang kwei, described as a fleshy branchy root . - + - 
approaching in odour that of Celery or Angelica. HanBurY 
identifies it erroneously with Aralia edulis, as does also 
P. Sarre [20], but [p. 133] the latter refers the name tang 
kui to Levisticum, 
Cust. Med., p. 70 (63):—Tang kui exported 1885 from 
Han kow 11,700 piculs,—p. 60 (23), from I chang 650 
