112 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Su Sune [11th cent.]:—The drug mw hiang is brought 
in ships from Kuang chou (Canton), but is not produced 
there. Large wrinkled root like that of the ke ts: 
(Solanum melongena). The leaves resemble those of the 
yang tt [v. supra] but are longer and larger. They are also 
like those of the shan yao (Dioscorea). Large root. Purple 
flowers. The buds of the root used in medicine. The 
mu hiang root looks like a rotten bone. That which is of a 
bitter taste and sticks to the teeth is of a good quality. 
There is a sort of mu hiang which grows in Kiang and Huai 
[Kiang su and An hui, App. 124, 89], and is called + 
ARF tu (native) ts‘ing mu hiang, which is not much 
used in medicine. The Shu pen ts‘ao [10th cent.] states 
that in the garden of the prince Mena Cu‘ana the mu hiang 
was cultivated. It was a plant from three to five feet high, 
leaves eight or nine inches long, wrinkled, soft, and covered — 
with hair. Yellow flowers, This was probably the tu mu 
hiang. In Buddhist books the mu hiang is called ke 1G 
ka-se-t‘o (probably kush tam is intended, Costus). 
K‘ou Tsuna-sur [12th cent.]:—The ts‘ing mu hiang is 
found beyond the frontier [west of] Min chou [in Kan st, 
App. 223]. The plant has leaves like the niu p‘ang [ Arctium 
Lappa. See 91] but they are narrower and longer. The 
stem is from two to three feet high and bears one yellow flower 
resembling the kin tstien (Inula). The fresh root is fragrant 
and has a pungent taste, | 
CHEN Cu‘enG [11th cent.]:—The mu hiang is brought 
to China from foreign countries, as has already been stated 
by T‘ao Howe-kixe and Sy Sune. But the mu Mang | 
which is produced in Ch‘u chou [in An hui, App. 25] an d . 
Hai chou [in Kiang su, App. 48] is the root of a plant 
called Be FE GS ma tou ling (horse’s bell), which is also used 
in medicine, : 
