166 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
The Ji hua Pen ts‘ao [10th cent.] calls this plant 
Yh, TH Wot he yu ma (devil’s Sesam). 
There are descriptions of the plant by several other 
Chinese authors, but they are confused and contradictory. 
Evidently they confound several plants. 
Li Sar-cHen observes, that there is in Min [Fu kien, 
App. 222] a plant called low lu. It has a stem six or 
seven feet high resembling that of the Sesam plant. In 
autumn, when it withers, it becomes black, like varnish. 
This is the true low lu. This latter name means “ black.” 
Ch., XI, 36:—Lou lu. Rude drawing. Comp. also 
Kiu huang, XLVI, 26. 
Cust. Med., No. 756 :—Lou lu, root of an herb (Serra- 
tula sp. ?) 
Cust. Med., p. 122 (34):—Lou Iu exported 1885 from 
Chin kiang 1.38 picul,—p. 344 (82), from Canton 0.1 picul. 
Phon 20, XV, 16 :—3fj HF Siphonostegia chinensis, Benth. 
(Serophularinew).—The So moku [XI, 62] figures the same 
plant under the Chinese name § jp} Jig. This plant, which 
is common in China, becomes indeed black in autumn 
when dried, but it is certainly not the plant figured in 
Chinese works sub low Iu. Siphonostegia chinensis seems to 
be intended by the & 43 HE yin hing ts‘ao figured 1 
Cho A 25 
Tatar. [Cat., 35] gives Bi] ZF mM lu ki nu as the 
Chinese name for Siphonostegia chinensis. See also P. SMITH, 
198. But judging by the description of the liu ke 
in the P. [XV, 382] and 7. [OLXX1] this is a plant of the 
order Composite. It is first spoken of by Suv Kore 
[8th cent.], and vaguely described. Lx Sut-cHEn says that 
it has yellow flowers resembling those of a small kw (Chrys 
