332 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Su Kune [7th cent.]:—The hou t‘eng grows in Liang 
chou [Sz ch‘uan, ete., App. 187]. Small, long leaves. The 
stem is provided with hooked thorns. 
Su Sune [11th cent.]:—It is found in Hing yiian fu 
in Ts‘in [in Shen si, App. 68, 358]. The drug is gathered 
in the 3rd month. 3 
© K‘ou Tsune-sat [12th cent.]:—It is common in the 3 
mountains of Hu nan, Hu pei and Kiang si. It is a climber — : 
from 8 to 20 feet long, of the thickness of a finger and [the 
stem] hollow. Thieves employ this hollow stem to suck out 
wine from a closed jar without damagin g the latter. 
Li Sui-cuen :—It is a climber, like the vine, with purple 
coloured recurved thorns like hooks. In ancient times at 
first the bark was used in medicine, afterwards the hooks : : 
became officinal. 
Ch. XX, 57 s:—Kou t‘eng. The figure represents & a 
plant with hooked spines, probably an Uncaria. The test a 
says that it grows in Yiin nan, Chen hiung chou. 
TAPAR Cab 87s Rou t‘eng. Rami scissi Unearie 
Gambir.—P, Surrn, 224.—The drug hou t‘eng received from 
Wen chow consisted of recurved spines. 
Cust. Med., p- 898 (248):— Kou t'eng exported 1885 
from Canton 58 piculs,—p. 214 (59), from Wen chow 
35 piculs,—p. 228 (128), from Fu chow 1.80 picul,—p. 74 
(108), 9K] mi how [stated in Hank. Med. (27) to be the 
same as kou t‘eng] from Han kow 340 piculs. 
In the Kwa wi [111] $y BE or K BH Fis Unearia 
rhynchophylla, Miq. Comp. also the drawing in Phon 20 
(XXX, 13, 14]. 
The genus Uncaria (order Rubiacec, tribus Naneleew) 8 
characterised by its climbing habit and by the old or barren 
flower-stalks being converted into hard, woody spines, directed 
