306 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Ch, XXII, 27:—Kua lou. Two figures. Both seem a 
to represent T'richosanthes. See also Kiu huang, LIT, 18— — 
Ch., XX, 59 :—Tien hua fen. Rude drawing of a plant said . 
to grow in Ming chou [in Che kiang, App. 224]. It is bitter 
and poisonous, and not the same as the kuo lou. 
Lour., Fl. cochin., 629 :—Solena heterophylla [Bryona, — 
see D.C. Prodr., II, 306]. Sinice: khu leu, tien hoa fuen. — 
Bacea coccinea, seminibus nigricantibus. Radix tuberosa, a 
fasciculata, tuberibus farinaceis, albicantibus, edulibus. 7 
Tatar., Cat., 27 :—Kua lou, Fructus globosus T’richosan- 
thes palmate, and [p. 56] tien hua fen, Radix Trichosanthes 
palmate, and [p. 9] hua fen, Radix Bryonie.—P. SmitH, 
43, 221. 
Kua lou at Peking is the common name for Trichosanthes 
Kirilowii, Maxim. [See Bot. sin., LU, 385.] But the drug 
t‘ten hua fen obtained from a Chinese apothecary’s shop there 
had cylindrical roots, four inches long, one inch in diameter, 
and contained a white flour ; it did not seem to be the root 
of the above plant. . 
Henry, Chin. pl, 198:—Hua ku hua, ten hua jams 
kua lou t'eng in Hu pei names for Trichosanthes multiloba, 
Miq., and 7. Kirilowii. = 
Cust. Med., p. 72 (96):—Hankow exported 1885 hua =: 
lou p't (skin of the fruit) 220 piculs,—p. 76 (157), Awa low 
Jen (seeds) 65 piculs,—p. 66 (24), t'ien hua fen 54 piculs. 
Lbid., p. 126 (77):—Chin kiang exported kua lou ps il : 
piculs,—p. 130 (182), kua lou jen, 38 piculs,—p. 124 (59), 
tien hua fen, 21 piculs, . 
Lbid., p. 368 (378):—Canton kua lou 23. piculs,— 4 
p. 368 (37), kua low jen 40 piculs. 3 
So moku, XX, 35 :—& HE Trichosanthes japonica, Regel. s 
Ses., con. 235 :— Trichosanthes cucumerina, Miq. — 
Japon.: tenk ha Jun. Sinice: K EH}, Adhibetur radix ab 4 
