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T‘ao Huna-Kine :—It is a common plant. It resembles 
a flowering wheat-ear. The seeds are very small. 
Su Kune [7th cent.]:—This plant is about one foot 
high. It has small, soft leaves. Flowers whitish purple. 
The fruit forms a horn. The seeds are black, flat, shining, and 
look like the seeds of the hien [Amarantus Blitum. See 256] 
but are larger. The plant grows in low, damp places. The 
people of King and Siang [both in Hu pei, App. 146, 305] 
call it BY BS EX kun lun ts‘ao. 
Su Sune [11th cent.]:—The plant is common in Kiang 
and Huai [Kiang su and An hui, App. 124, 89] and in 
Mid China. It grows from three to four feet high. The 
leaves are broad, resemble willow-leaves, but are softer. 
The stem is like that of the hao (Artemisia), greenish red. 
Its flowers appear in the 6th or 7th month, they are red in 
the upper part (of the ear), white in the lower part. Seeds 
black, shining and flat, resembling those of the lang tang 
[Scopolia. See 139]. The root is like Artemisia root. 
It Sui-cnen:—The ts‘ing siang grows wild. The 
young plant resembles the Azen [v. supra], and can be eaten. 
In its leaves, flowers and seeds the ts‘ing siang resembles 
the ki kuan (Celosia cristata, cockscomb), only the flower- 
spikes of the latter are larger and flat. The ts‘ing sang is 
therefore also called WE Se EF ki kuan hien or ye (wild) ki. 
kwan. Su Kuna is wrong in saying that the fruit has the 
shape of a horn. 
Kiu huang [XLVII, 18] and Ch. [XI, 46] sub ts‘ing 
siang, representations of Celosia argentea, L. The description 
in the P, agrees. 
Lour., Fl. cochin., 203 :—Celosia argentea. Sinice tsem 
stam tsu, 
Tarar., Cat., 13 :—Ts‘ing siang tsz‘. Semina Celosie 
 argentee.—P, Sura, 57.—I have also seen seeds received 
