316 ene BOTANICON SINICUM. 
foliis ovatis, septemnerviis, radice tuberosa, fasciculata, 
tuberibus longis, teretibus, utrinque attenuatis, albicantibus, 
edulibus., 
SO0kE. Cet £ Py pu. Radix ?—P. Sirs, 145. a 
Melanthium ? 
The drug which I obtained, under the name of po pt, : 
from a Peking drug-shop, were white cylindrical tubers, — 
somewhat resembling stalks, hollow inside, and of a sweetish - 
taste, 
Henry, Chin. pl., 860 :—Po pu ken in Hu pei, the rools 
of Stemona tuberosa, Lour., which are used in medicine. 
Cust. Med., p. 122 (43):—Po pu exported 1885. from : 
Chin kiang 64 piculs,—p, 348 (122), from Canton 37 . 
piculs,—p, 188 (66), from Ning po 3.38 piculs,—p. 280 (95). 
from Amoy 1.65 piculs.— Exported also from Han kow. 
See Hank. Med., 32. 
The plant described by Kamprsr [ Amun. evrot., 784, i . P 
Bam Sackubukon, vulgo fekuso kadsura] is Paderia fatida, : 
L. See also Banxs, Icon. sel. Kemph., tab. 9. But accord: 
ing to Japanese botanists the above Chinese and the first 
Japanese name belong to Stemona, only the second Japanese 
name is applied to Prederia, 
So moku, II, 56 :— Ay Hn fi. Stemona (Roxburghia) 
sessilifolia, Miq.— Ibid, 57 :— HE AE AT 2B AE [the first — 
characters mean « climbing ”], Stemona japonica, Mig. “ 
same Chinese name applied in Srep., Icon. ined., VII, 
Roxb, phyllantha.—Same identifications in F’-hon 20, XXVIII, 
3-5.—Kwa wi, 61,— 
118.— BE 8B pei (pi) hiai, P., XVIIIb, 1. T., CXLVE 
Pen king : — Pej hiat. Root officinal. ‘Taste bitter 
Non-poisonous, 
