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The Ch. [XXIV, 23-26] figures sub ten nan sing four 
aroidaceous plants with variously shaped leaves: palmate, 
pedatisect, peltatosect. 
Lour., Fl. cochin., 652:—Arum pentaphyllum, L. 
Sinice : tien nan sin. 
Tarar., Cat., 40, 56:—Nan sing or ten nan sing, Radix 
Ari pentaphylliicGaucer [29] describes and figures this root. 
It has indeed a resemblance to a star or a tiger’s paw.—Han., 
Se. pap., 263.—P. Smiru, 26. 
In the Peking mountains the name fen nan sing is 
applied to Arisaema Tatarinowii, Schott. Peltatosect leaves. 
Amen. exot., 786:—}R i nan soo, vulgo jamma 
konjakf, item osomi, Medicis ten nan sio dictus, Dracunculus 
minor trifolius, ete.—This is Arum triphyllum, Thbg. [ Fl. 
Jjap., 233] and Arisema ringens, Schott. 
So moku, XLX, 16, and Phon zo, XXII, 18, 19 :—K Hi 
2, Arisema japonicum, Bl. Comp. also Kwa wi, 58. 
Cust. Med., p. 78 (165) :— Tien nan sing exported 1885 
from Han kow 220 piculs,—p. 34 (159), from Tien tsin 
10 piculs,—p. 130 (154), from Chin kiang 6.8 piculs. 
149.—Hy BR yu po. P., XVI, 14. 7, CXXXII. 
Pen king:—Yu po. The root is officinal. Taste acrid 
and bitter. Nature warm. Poisonous. 
Su Kone [7th cent.]:—The yu po is the young root of 
the hu chang [see 148]. It is double the size of the pan hia 
tuber [see 150]. There are no secondary lateral tubers. The 
old root is the hu chang. The plant mentioned by T*ao 
Hune-xine under the name of yu po as cultivated in Shi 
hing [App. 289] is not this plant but the yuan wei [an Iris, 
‘See 154]. 
