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Su Sune [11th cent.]:—The best sort comes from Ts‘ 
chou [in Shan tung, App. 348]. The leaves are trifoliate, 
of a light green colour, somewhat resembling bamboo-leaves. 
The sort produced in Kiang nan has leaves resembling 
those of the shao yo [Pwonia albiflora. See 52]. The tuber 
has a yellow skin and white flesh. The small tubers are 
called yang yen pan hia [v. supra]. 
Ch.. XXIV, 28, 30:—Pan hia. The drawings seem 
to represent Pinellia tuberifera, Ten. Ternate leaves. 
Lour., Fl. cochin., 652 :—Arum triphyllum, L. [this is 
Arisema Loureiri, according to Buumg. Species dubia]. 
Sinice : puon hia. Bulbus subrotundus albus.—Jbid., 651 :— 
Arum dracontium, L. [Buume calls it Arisaema cochinchinense}. 
Sinice : puon hia. Folia pedata. Bulbus subrotundus albus. 
Tarvar., Cat., i:—Pan hia. Radix Ari macrouri, Bge. 
[same as Pinellia tuberifera|.—GAUGER, 2:— Pan hia 
described and figured. Small spherical, white tubers. 3 
Hansury, Se. pap., 262 :—Me 42 BF sheng (fresh) pan 
hia. Tubers of Pinellia tuberifera described and figured.— 
P. Surra, 22, 26, 149. 
At Peking the name pan hia is applied to Pinellia 
tubifera as well as to P. pedatisecta, Schott. 
China Review, X, 380 [Parxer’s “Travels in Sz 
ch‘uan”]:—A root drug called pan hia, looking like round 
pellets of bone, was drying in the sun. 
Cust. Med., p. 78 (171):—Pan hia exported 1885 from 
Han kow 1,200 piculs,—p. 130 (144), from Chin kiang’ 
58 piculs,—p. 188 (72), from Ning po 55 piculs,—p. 58 (19), 
from I chang 39 piculs. 
So moku, XIX, 2, and Phon zo, XXII, 23, 24:—4E B, 
Pinellia tuberifera.—So moku, XIX, 4:-—K 4B (large 
pan hia), P. tripartita, Schott. 
