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Pie Iu:—Other names: $£ Pi tu Vien, HH jo chi, 
EY AE pai kin, fy Hi pat Lien. The tu jo grows in the 
marshes of Wu ling [in Hu nan, App. 394] and in Yiian kii 
[in Shan tung, App. 415]. The root is dug up in the 
2nd and 8th months and dried in the sun. In the Kuang 
ya it is called AE RF ch‘u heng. 
T‘ao Huna-K1ne :—It is a common plant. Its leaves 
resemble kiang (ginger) leaves and are veined. The root 
resembles the hao liang kiang (Galanga), but is smaller, of 
4 pungent taste and fragrant. It is also very much like the 
toot of the sian fu [ Calystegia. See 169] and is confounded 
With it, but the leaves are different. The tu jo is mentioned 
as a fragrant plant in the Elegies of Ts‘u [4th cent. B.C. ]. 
Su Kune [7th cent.]:—The plant is common in Kiang 
and Hu [Mid China, App. 124, 83]. It grows in shady 
places. The plant resembles the lien kiang [a Zingiberacea. 
P., X1Va, 29], the root the kao liang kiang. 
Han Pao-Suena [10th cent.]:—The plant resembles 
the shan kiang [Alpinia. See 56]. Yellow flowers, red 
fruit, as large as small jujubes. Inside the fruit resembles 
the tow hou [Cardamom. See 58]. That produced in Ling 
nan [8. China, App. 197] and Hia chou [in Hu pei, App. 
64) is the best. The Fun tsz‘ ki jan says that the tu heng 
and the tw jo are produced in the southern prefectures and 
in Han chung [S. Shen si, App. 54]. : 
It Sut-cuzn:—There is in the mountains of Ch‘u 
(Hu kuang, App. 24] a plant which the people call FS 3 BE 
liang kiang ken (root). It resembles ginger and is of a pun- 
gent taste. This is the plant which Coen Kuan [7th cent. ] 
notices under the name Rt HE chao isz kiang.° Su SUNG 
[11th cent.] calls it [lj # shan kiang (mountain ginger) 
and states that it is produced in Wei chou fin Ho nan, 
®” Chao tsz‘ a barbarian trib? in the S.W, of China, 
