324 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
The skin is black and the flesh white. One sort is called bi 
chi (ved) lien, for it (the root) has a red skin. But 
flowers, the fruit and the medical virtues are the same. 
Lit Sut-cuey :—Another name for this drug is Jy 5 mR 
mao rh luan (cat’s testicles). 
Ch., XXII, 46 :—Pat lien. Rude drawing which does 
not permit of identification. 
Henry, Chin, pl., 275 :—Mao rh luan, Vitis sevianeefoliay 
Bge.—This plant is figured in the Ch. [XIX, 47] under the — 
name of $8 fi 42 46 pao tan (goose sitting on eggs). Ee 
Cust. Med., p. 346 (108):—Pai lien exported 1885 oe 
Canton, 3.75 piculs,—p, 280 (88), from Amoy 0.45 picul. ie 
Vitis serianefolia is 2 common plant in North and Mid — 
China and Japan. It has palmately 5-parted leaves andl 
tuberous roots, 
So moku, IV, 17 [—E4 $&, Vitis seriancefolia.—Comp- ; 
also Kwa wi, 45, 
181.8 I che k'ui. P., XVII, 8. 7, CLVL 
Pen king :—Che kui, The root is officinal. Taste 1 
Nature uniform, Non-poisonous. 
Pie lu:—It is a mountain plant. The root is dug up 
the 2nd month. 
Tao Huna-xing :—The root resembles a small es 
[ Colocasia. See 261]. The flesh is white and the skin i 
yellow. Tt grows in Mid China, Ve 
Su Kune [7th cent.]:—This drug is slightly poisonous: — 
Large specimens of the root are 
as large as a sheng,” 
and trees, 
as large as a tou, the ere 
The plant climbs on herbaceous plants” 
on 
Leaves like those of the tu heng [ Asaru 
® Chinese dry measures, See W.D., p. 771, 874, 
