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Su Sune [11th cent.]:—The plant is cultivated but 
rarely in the north. It resembles the pai su [Perilla. Sce 
67] but the leaves are smaller. It is produced in Shou 
chun and Sin an [both in Che kiang, App. 291, 310]. 
There is one kind which is called H [| | shi hiang ju 
It grows on rocks, is slender, of a yellow colour, pungent 
and fragrant and much valued. 
K‘ou Tsune-sut [12th cent.]:—The hiang ju grows 
Wild in the mountains of North and South King Hu [Hu 
nan, App. 147]. In Pien and Lo [both in Ho nan, App. 
248, 201] the people cultivate it in gardens and eat it asa 
vegetable during the hot season. 
Li Sut-cuen:—There are the wild-growing hiang ju 
and the cultivated one. The latter is called % Z& hiang ts‘ai 
(fragrant vegetable). There is a large-leaved and a small- 
leayed sort, the first is the best. The plant has a square 
stem, incised leaves like the huang hing (Vitex) but smaller. 
In the 9th month purple flowers in spikes, followed by small 
seeds. There is one sort with more slender leaves like those 
of the lo chou (Kochia) and which grows only a few inches 
high. This is the shi hiang ju. Another name for the hiang 
Juis B ye B mi feng ts‘ao (bee plant). 
Ch, XXV, 82:—Hiang ju. Representation of a 
Labiata, probably Elsholtzia. 
Tavar., Cat., 46:—Hiang ju, Elsholtzia cristata. This 
is a common plant in the Peking mountains. DsBEaux 
[ Flor, Shang hai, 48, Tien tsin, 36] saw it cultivated in 
_ Chinese gardens.—P. Sarr, 94. 
Cust. Med., p. 80 (202) :—Hiang ju exported 1885 from 
Han kow 173 piculs,—p. 374 (464), from Canton 31 
Piculs,—p, 92 (84), from Kiu kiang 31 piculs,—p. 300 
(390), from Amoy 8 piculs. 
So moku, XI, 16 :- -# HE Elsholtzia cristata, Willd. 
