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Pie lw:—Other names: FE FJ ttien kiu (heaven mortar), 
fee Fe hie tu (counter poison). The kui kin grows in Kiu- 
kii [App. 156], in mountain-yalleys, also in Yiian ki [in 
Shan tung, App. 415]. The root is dug up in the 2nd and 
8th months. : 
T‘ao Hune-xine :—The root resembles the roots of the 
she kan [Pardanthus. See 153], the shu [Atractylis. See 
12] and the kou wen [see 162]. There are two sorts. One is 2 
produced in Ts‘ien t‘ang [in Che kiang, App. 352] and in 
Mid China. It is of a sweet taste hl covered with dense — 4 
hair (radical fibres). This is. the best. The other, which — 
comes from Hui ki and Wu hing [both in Che kiang, App. ae 
98, 290], is larger, of a bitter taste, not covered with hair, and 
less potent. The ma mu tu hung has a root which resembles : 
the huang tsing [Polygonatum. See 7]. It has excavations 
(FA kin, properly mortar) resembling horse’s eyes, is tender 2 
and succulent. It is less frequently used in medicine than the ee 
genuine kui kiu. oe 
Su Kune [7th cent.]:—The kui kiu grows in the depths a 
of the mountains, in shady places. The leaves resemble = 
those of the pi ma (Ricinus), are bi-lobed, arranged in 
rows at the top of a solitary stem. The root sends up one — * 
stem every year, and when the stem decays it leaves at 
excavation on the root. Thus after 2U years the root shows a 
20 excavations. The name kin kiu (nine excavations) 18 
also derived from this peculiarity of the root. In its skin, 
flesh and hairs (radical fibres) the reot resembles the she kan 
[v. supra], which is frequently substituted for it. The 
kui kiu is now an article presented as tribute in the district 
Tang yang in the prefecture of King chou, in the district 
of Yiian an in the prefecture of Hia chou, and in the dis- 
trict of King shan in the prefecture of Siang chon [all 
these localities are in Hu pei, App. 333, 146, 417, 64, 149, 
305]. It grows there in the mountains, but is very rare. 
