3822 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Tu fu ling is the Chinese name of the drug which we 
eall China-root. As has been stated above, this is not yielded 
by Smilax C, Zina, as has been supposed in former times, but by 
one or several other species of Smilax. One of them is 
Smilax glabra, Roxb. See Hanon, on the source of the 
China-root of commerce (Journ. Bot., 187 2, p. 102]. “Ties 
Seems to be the plant represented in the Ch. [XX, 1] sub : 
t'u fu ling, _ 
A. Ciryer, Specimen Medicine sinice, 1682, 1387:—Tufo 
lim, Pao de China (China-wood ), uti vocant Lusitani, rabei 
coloris fere est. Est et aliud preestantius, coloris albi, pe fo a 
lim dictum.—Comp. infra, 350. : 
Lovr., F1. cochin., 763, 710:—Smilax China, 1. Sinice: 4g 
thu fu lin. Radix sinensis rubra. Radix horizontalis, longis- 4 
sima Serpens: tuberibus oblongis, nodoso-verrucosis, interdum 
ramosis, intus pallidis, vel rubescentibus, semipedalibus, sub 
teretibus, sparsis. — Maximow1cz [Dec X, 410] doubts: 
whether Lourzrro’s plant is really Smilax China. 
Du Hatpe, la Chine, I, 30, LI, 647.—Groster, la Chine, 
III, 324, 398. 
Tarar., Cat., 61:—T%y Ju ling. Radix Smilacis. — ae 
Gaucer [44] describes and figures the same drug.—P. SMITH, 
198 :—T'u fy ling, Smilax chinensis. 
Henry, Chin, pl., 478 :—Tu fu ling, Smilaw sp. from 
which China-root 18 obtained. It has often. been supposed 
that China-root is obtained from Smilax China, but this is 
very common at [ chang and Pa tung, and certainly is not the 
source of the drug, 
It is to be noted that the drug exported 
from Sz ch‘uan as China-root is quite a different substance, 
viz. Pachyma Cocos [see 350]. Both this and Smilax root 
pass through the Customs under the same name. In Chines? 
books the Pachyma is Ju ling or pai (white) fu ling, while the : 
Smilax is distinguished as t6 Ee 
u fu ling. 
