200 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
S.E. Shen si, App. 85]. Leaves like those of the k‘ué 
(Mallow) but larger. The flowers issue directly from the 
root. 
Su Sune [11th cent.]:—Now it is also found in Kuan 
chung [in Shen si, App. 158]. The root is of a purple 
colour. The leaves resemble those of the pei hiai [ Dioscorea. 
See 178]. It blossoms in the 12th month. Yellow flowers. 
Greenish purple receptacle (¢nvolucrum ?). These flowers are 
from one to two inches above the ground. There is one kind 
with red flowers and large leaves like those of Melumbium 
speciosum, | 
K‘ou Tsuna-sar [12th cent.]:—The k‘uan tung is the 
only plant that is independent of frost and snow, for it 
flowers long before spring, wherefore it is also called $f 
tsuan tung (piercing the cold). 
Ch. XI, 44 :—K‘uan tung hua. Flowers and leaves 
figured. Perhaps 7 ussilago. See also Kiu huang [XLVI, 5]. 
Only leaves figured. 
The above Chinese descriptions of the k‘wan tung hua 
agree in a general way with Tussilago Farfara, L.,—Colt’s 
foot, which sets forth, early in spring, its short flower-stalks ; 
each bearing at its summit a single large yellow radiated 
flower-head. 
Lour., F7. cochin., 614 :—Tussilago Farfara, L. Habitat 
inculta in China boreali. Sinice koan tum hoa. Ibidem 
Luss. anandria, sin.: Lu chau koan tum hoa. China borealis 
[perhaps ancient Lu chou in Shan si. See App. 204]. 
MATA AOE OF oe Bhan tung hua. Flores Farfare.— 
P. Surra, 68, sub Colt’s foot. 
In Wiutams’ Chin. Dict. [477] we read that suan 
tung hua are the flowers of Eriobotrya japonica. HENRY _ 
[ Chin. pl., 124] states that at I chang the dried flowers of — 
Eriobotrya japonica are called k‘uan tung hua. : 
