300 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
after ten days. A popular name for this plant is § F 7E 
ku tsz‘ hua (drum flower; but, as Lr Sui-cuEn explains, 
ku tsz‘ means also a war trumpet). 
Li Sut-cuen :—The siian hua is a twining plant which 
grows in fields, on walls, etc. Leaves like those of the 
po ts‘aé [Spinage] but smaller. It blossoms until autumn. 
The flowers are of a pale red colour, resembling in shape those 
of the white k‘ien niu [Pharbitis. See 168] ; sometimes they 
are double. The root is white and resembles a tendon. It does 
not produce seeds (Ay #4 $:,—but the last character sometimes 
also means tubers). Another name for this plant is FE ay Ht 
tien kien ts‘ao (heavenly sword plant). There is also one 
kind with double flowers, which is called £8 #E HE FF chien chi 
mou tan, 
Ch, XXII, 13:—Saan hua. Figures of two different 
convolvulaceous plants. One of them is probably Calystegia 
sepium, R. Br. The same plant seems also to be represented 
in the Kiu huang [LI, 10] sub # Ff Hi fu tsz* hen, also called 
He | yen fu, 47 Bi 7E ta wan hua, and Be GE By tu rh miao 
(hare leaf).—According to Henry [Chin. pl., 479] the last 
name is used in Hu pei for Calystegia sepium.—Ta wan hua 
at Peking is the common name for Convolvulus arvensis, Li 
var, sagittatus. The name yen fu is also used for it. 
TaTar., Cat., 48 :—Siian hua. Calystegia sepium oe 
P. Surra, 47. 
Amen. exot., 856 BY F hos et kudsi, vulgo firagawo, t.¢. 
meridie aperiens, Convolvulus vulgaris flore majori albo 
meridiano. In hortulis ob ornatum colitur.— According to 
Francner & Sav., Jragawo is the Japanese name for Calystegia 
Japonica, Miq. 
So moku, IV, 22 ‘Tit TE Calystegia japonica, Miq.— 
Phon zo, XXVI, 15:—Same Chinese name and same 
identification. —Jbéd., 16 :—$B BE Ee Ff Convolvulacea? not 
determined by Francugr 
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