208 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
The Cust. Med. mentions the ki mai as imported into 
several ports, but it is not stated there from what place 
it is exported. In the Hank. Med. [12] it is noticed as a 
drug exported from Han kow. 
Amen. exot., 910 :—%q Wf seki tsiku, vulgo nadesko et 
tokunatz. Caryophyllus hortensis simplex, flore majore. 
So moku, VIII, 20 :—#2 BE Dianthus superbus.—Ihid., 
21 :-—¥§ BB 7E [comp. same name in P.j, a large double 
Dianthus.—Ibid., 22 :-—7G %{~ Dianthus Seguieri (same as 
D. chinensis), 
113.—E HR FF wang pu liu hing. P., XVI, 48. 
T., CLXXX. 
Pen king, Index :— Wang pu liu hing. 
Pie lu:—The wang pu liu hing grows in the mountain- 
valleys of T‘ai shan [in Shan tung App. 822]. It is gathered 
in the 2nd and 8th months. ‘The leaves and the seed 
officinal. Taste bitter. Nature uniform. Non-poisonous. 
Wu P‘u [8rd cent.] writes the name Ay A FT pu eu 
hing. 
In the Ji hua Pen ts‘ao [10th cent.] it is called BY & tt 
tsien kin hua and #8 Bf 4E kin kung hua. The meaning of 
the latter name is “ forbidden in the palace,” and the 
original name wang pu liu hing means, as Li SHI-CHEN 
explains, about the same. The descriptions of the plant 
given by the ancient authors are confused and incorrect, for 
they confound it with Physalis [see 106]. 
Li Sar-cuen says :—The wang pu liu hing is frequently 
met with in corn-fields, it grows from one to two feet high. 
In the 3rd or 4th month it opens its small flowers resembling 
little bells, of a reddish white colour. The fruit (capsule), 
