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Wu Pv [8rd cent.] calls the plant also $i] 3¢ king hie 
oe (fia?) and states that it has leaves like those of the lo li 
(Chenopodium) but smaller. The plant is eaten in Shu 
(Sz ch‘uan, App. 292]. 
Tso Hune-xina:—The kia su is not used now in 
medical prescriptions. 
Su Kune [7th cent.] classes it among the vegetables. 
Ii Sut-cuen :—The king kie grows wild and is also 
much cultivated. The young plants are fried and eaten. 
The taste is pungent and fragrant. The plant has a square 
_ Stem, small leaves resembling those of the tu chou [Kochia. 
See 111] but narrower and smaller, of a pale yellowish 
éreen colour. In the 8th month it opens its small flowers, 
atranged in spikes like those of the su [Perilla, See 67]. 
The seeds are small like those of the ¢“ing li [see 114]. 
Ch., XXV, 22 :—Kia su or king kie. It seems Salvia 
- plebeja, R. Br., is intended by the drawing. This plant at 
Peking is called king kie, but the same name is also applied 
to Nepeta tenuifolia, Bth. 
2 igs Tavar., Cat., 58 :—King kie, Salvia plebeja.—P. Saitu, 
: Parker, Canton pl., king kie= Salvia plebeja, also 
: Moslea lanceolata, Maxim. But Louretro (Fl. cochin., 453] 
—«Bives quam tum kim kiai (king kie of Canton) as the Chinese 
2 name for Origanum creticum, L. [O. vulgare. See Ind. Fl. 
| = II, 289), | 
Henry, Chin. pl., 70:—The name king hie applied in 
_ “pei to various plants: Pihtheirospermum, Mosla, Elsholt- 
+ Melampyrum. 
Cust. Med. p. 182 (172):—King kie exported 1885 
; from Chin kiang 463 piculs,—p. 202 (264), from Ning po 
. ~ Piculs,—p, 92 (80), from Kiu kiang 123 piculs.—The- 
Hank. Med. [p. 6] mentions it also as exported from 
Han kow, | ‘ 2g 
