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Lt Sut-cuen notices that the above name mi hiang is 
also applied to the ch‘en hiang [Aloewood. See 807] and 
AK | mu hiang to a kind of Rose [the fragrant Rosa 
Banksia. Comp. 171). ; 
Ch., XX, 21:—Mza tou ling or tu ts‘ing mu hiang, and 
[XXI, 2] tu ts‘ing mu hiang, good drawings representing an 
Aristolochia. See also Kiu huang, XLV1, 15 :—Ma tou ling. 
The latter name (horse’s bell) refers to the shape of the 
fruit—Ch., XXV, 11:—Three miserable drawings of the 
ts‘ing mu hiang, produced in Ch‘u chou and Hai chou, and 
of the mu hiang from Canton. 
Tatar., Cat., 40 :—Mu hiang, and [27] kuang (Canton) 
mu hiang, Costus amarus.—GAvGER, 23 :—Kuang mu hiang 
described and figured. The root has a violet-like smell. 
It seems to belong to a plant of the Composite order and 
Tesembles the root of Inula Helenium. 
Hans., Se. pap., 257:—Root mu hiang received from 
Shang hai. It was the root of Aucklandia Costus, Fale. 
(Aplotawis Lappa, Dene. Composita). Costus root or 
et utchuk.— Witttams, Chin. Commerc. Guide, p. 100.— 
P. Surra, 29. 
In Dymock’s Vegetable Mat. Med. of W. India [p. 872] 
this plant is called A plotaxis auriculata, DC., in Sanscrit 
kushta, in Arabic and Persian kust, in Bengal patchak. The 
Toot is collected in large quantities in the highlands of 
Kashmeer and exported to Punjab. It is much shipped to 
China. =P. Sari is wrong in stating that putchuk is a 
Canton name for the drug.—Ganrcias aB ORTO [middle of the 
16th cent.] in his Indian Pharmacopeeia [Clusius, Exot. 204] 
says :—Costus in Malacca, ubi ejus plurimus est usus pu cho 
dictus et inde yehitur in Sinarum regionem. 
As to the mu hiang or ts‘ing mu hiang produced in 
China and called there also ¢‘w ts‘ing mu hiang or ma tou ling, 
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