224 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
The seeds and the flowers used in medicine. The plant is 
also known by the name JB #8 hung kie. 
The hung is the Polygonum orientale, L. See Bot. sin., 
II, 426. Ch. XI, 90.—Hewry, Chin., pl., 239.—So moku, 
VII, 76. 
S1es., Ccon., 105:—Polygonum orientale. Japon. : 
oketade; sinice: $F, Herba edulis. 
126.—}% il hu chang. P., XVI, 83. T., CLXIV. 
Comp. Rh ya, 19. 
The Pie lu gives only the name, hu chang (tiger’s staff), 
and notices the medical virtues of the drug. The root is 
used. 
T‘ao Hune-K1ne :—It grows abundantly in fields. It 
resembles the ta ma liao [ Polygonum. See 124]. The stem 
is variegated, the leaves are round. 
In the Yao sing Pen ts‘ao [6th and 7th cent.] it is called 
K BB ta chung chang,—in the Pen ts‘ao shi i [8th cent.]J 
it is 7 BE ku chang. 
Han Pao-snenea [10th cent.]:—It grows in low, damp 
places, like a tree, ten feet and more high. Red stem. 
Yellow root. The root is gathered in the 2nd and 3rd months 
and dried in the sun. 
In the Ji hua Pen ts‘ao [10th cent.] it is called BE we 
pan chang (variegated staff). 
Su Sune [11th cent.]:—It now grows in Fen chou 2 
[in Shan si, App. 38], in Yiie chou [in Che kiang, ApP- 
418], in Ch‘u chou [in An hui, App. 25], where it 18 4 : 
common plant. The young plants resemble bamboo-sprouts- — : 
It is covered with red spots. Leaves like small apricot-leavess 
It flowers in the 7th month, and bears seed in the 9th. 
