328 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
considered the best. Another sort, with black spots and ofa — 
ligneous structure, is not valued. The root is also used for 
food. 
Cu‘sn Ts‘ane-xr [8th cent.]:—The two sorts spoken of 
by T‘ao Hune-Kina are the # BF, Han fang ki and the 
mu (ligneous) fang ki. , 
. oy aes cent.]:—Now this drug is produced im 
KYen [N. Kui chou, App. 141]. That from Han chung 
(S. Shen si, App. 54] when broken (or rather cut transversely) 
shows radiating veins. It is yellow, solid and fragrant. — 
Slender, weak stem, small leaves having some resemblanee 
to the kien niu [Pharbitis. See 168]. If a section of the 
stem be taken and air be blown at one end it passes through 4 
it, the same as in the mu t‘ung [see the next]. yee : 
drug of a greenish white colour, empty and soft [noticed by . 
T‘ao Hune-xtne]. There is another kind, which “a a 
unpleasant odour. The skin of the drug is wrinkled : - 
covered with warts.*> This is called AR BG CL mu fang ed; 
Su Kone says that it is not used in medicine. This — 
however, is met with in the prescriptions of CHANG CHUNG 3 
KING [2nd cent.] and others. +h : 
Ch., XXII, 38 :—Fang ki. Rude drawing. Plant wit — 
berries. ee 
Tatar. Cat. 23:— Fang ki. Radix Convolvuli.—— 
P. Surra, 70, : 
Cust. Med., 340 (28) —Fang ki exported 1885 gi : 
Canton 268 piculs.— Exported also from Han kow. | 
Hank. Med., 12, 
Amen. exot., 909: —B BA boi, vulgo awu kadsura. | 
Hedera major sterilis. ©, Pauh. P. : 
Horr. & Scutr., 160 2 BR G, Cocculus japome 
DC. Ibid., 161 -—AR BG, C. Thunbergii, DC. 
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