118 BOTANICON SINICUM, 
It resembles in shape and in odour the tu jo [see 55], but 
the leaves are like those of the shan hkiang [see 56]. 
T‘ao Hune-Kive :—This is a kind of ginger produced 
in the district of Kao liang, whence the name. 
It Sin [8th cent.]:—27 F ie hung tor k‘ou (red : 
nutmeg) is the name for the fruit of the sao Liang kiang. 
It is a common plant in Nan hai [Kuang chou fu, App. 228). 
It looks like a reed. The leaves resemble ginger - leaves. 
The flowers are veined with red and arranged in a spike 
which is at first enclosed in a spathe. The young flowers 
are prepared with salt, 
Su Sone [11th cent.]:—The kao liang kiang is a 
common plant in Ling nan (South China), also in K‘ien and 
Shu [N. Kui chou and Sz ch‘uan, App. 141, 292]. It is 
also found in Central China, but this sort is not much used 
in medicine. The plant grows from one to two feet high. 
The leaves resemble ginger-leaves, Purplish red flowers 
like those of the shan kiang. 
Fan Cu‘ena-ra [12th cent.] in his description of the 
southern provinces of China, says that the hung tou Kou 1s 
_a plant with leaves like a reed. It shoots forth one stem. 
bearing a large spathe which bursts and then a drooping — 
spike of beautiful pale red flowers appears. The flowers 
resemble peach or apricot flowers. : 
Lt Sut-cuen states that the plant is also known under 
the name of 4 FE man kiang (ginger of the Southern — 
Barbarians), : 
Ch, XXV, 39 :—Kao liang kiang. The drawing seems — 
to represent a Zingiberacea. The plant is said to grow it 
Yiin nan. Yellow flowers. 
Lovr. [Fl. cochin., 7] gives cao leam kiam as te 
Chinese name for Amomum Galanga, L., the Galanga major 
