244 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Wu Pv [8rd cent.] says it is gathered in the 8th month, 
and gives the following synonyms : Ge EE ling kao, HY 
kan tse, Fy #2 pai tse, FE BR kui chou, 7 3Z k‘u tse. 
T‘ao Hone-Kine explains that Chung shan lies in Tai 
kiin [in Shan si. Comp. App. 321]. The best drug is 
brought from T‘ai shan [in Shan tung, App. 322] and Kiang 
tung [Kiang su, ete, App. 124]. That with a red skin 
is of a good quality. The white-skinned is inferior in quality. 
It is also called BX | [ ts‘ao (herbaceous) kan sué. 
Su Kune [7th cent.]:—The kan sui in its stem and 
leaves resembles the tse ts‘i [137]. The root has a red 
skin and white flesh. It forms tubers. The ts‘ao kan sui 
[v. supra] is a quite different plant and the same as the 
tsao hiu [ Paris. See 151], which is commonly called ch‘ung 
t‘ai and which has leaves resembling those of the kui kiu 
[see 152] and the pi ma (2icinus) and its root has a white 
skin. 
Su Sune [11th cent.]:—This plant (the kan sui) now 
grows in Shen si [App. 284] and Kiang tung [Kiang su, | 
etc., App. 124] and resembles the tse ts‘ [137], but the 
stem is shorter, more slender, the leaves contain a juice, the 
root has a red skin and a white flesh forms tubers of the 
size of the end of a finger. 
Ch.. XXIV, 31:—Kan sui. Henry [Chin. pl. 282] 
means that the figure is intended for a Wickstremia (order 
Thymelacee). 
Tarar., Cat., 25:—Kan sui. Radix Passerine? (Thyme- 
lacew).— GAauGER [22] describes and figures the kan sut 
root. Cylindrical or elliptical tubers which smell like ginger. 
—P. Smiru, 168. 
Cust. Med., p. 68 (33):—Kan sui exported 1885 from 
Han kow 3.30 piculs,—p. 278 (54), from Amoy 0.07 picul. 
So moku, IX, 13:—tf 3 Euphorbia Sieboldii, Morr. 
& Den. [E. corraloides, Thbg., £1. jap., 197]. 
